Teen subway car train thief turned in by family, busted by cops: NYPD sources

Cops have arrested the two teens suspected of being responsible for swiping a Queens subway train and slamming it into another train — after one of the joyriders was turned in by a family member who saw NYPD surveillance images, police sources said Friday.

The two 17-year-olds, a boy and a girl, were caught on camera swiping the empty and parked MTA train at the Briarwood subway station off the Van Wyck Expressway near Main St. on Sept. 12. The MTA's F and E lines run through the Briarwood subway station.

The pair entered the empty train just before 12:10 a.m., got into the motorman's cabin, and somehow got the train rolling.

But their joyride only lasted a few seconds: they drove the train about 50 feet before it struck another parked train on the same track.

No one was injured and neither train was seriously damaged , officials said.

It was not immediately clear how the two teens got the train moving.

"It was an extremely foolish and reckless act of two individuals accessing live track," Interim Transit Authority President Demetrius Crichlow said about the short-lived theft.

Cops released images of the teens on Tuesday evening. The girl was dressed all in pink and was wearing a pink shower cap at the time of the theft.

The next day, cops identified the girl and took her into custody, charging her with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.

The next day, the teenage boy's relatives turned him into authorities. He's facing the same charges.

Neither teen was identified because of their age.