By Joe Anuta
A Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker was arrested and charged with staging a robbery of her token booth, the Queens district attorney said.
South Jamaica resident Tracy King, 48, was arrested early Wednesday morning and charged with conspiracy and defrauding the government, according to the DA.
Police first spoke with King Saturday, after she told them a man had bound her hands with duct tape, covered her mouth and then stole $4,000 from the token booth at the 111th Street and Roosevelt Avenue stop on the No. 7 line where she worked, the DA said. King told police the man was wearing an MTA reflective vest and had asked to use the break room, the DA said.
Using fingerprints found at the scene and call records, police tracked down Brooklyn resident Anthony Brown, 42, arrested him and charged him with burglary, robbery and kidnapping, the DA said.
But Brown then implicated King, telling police it was her idea to hatch the scheme and telling him what time to arrive at the station, the DA said. She had called Brown as recently as May 10, according to phone records.
King told Brown he had to tie her up to make the fake robbery believable and she wanted half the cash once the ordeal was over, according to the DA.
Police returned to speak with King again and arrested her.
If convicted, Brown and King could each face up to seven years in prison.
