A MTA worker and her male accomplice have been arrested for stealing $4,000 in a staged robbery at a Queens subway station, announced District Attorney Richard Brown.
Tracy King, 48, of Queens, and Anthony Brown, 42, of Brooklyn, have been charged with grand larceny, defrauding the government and falsely reporting an incident.
As part of the duo’s alleged scheme, King claimed she was a victim of the Saturday, May 11 holdup at the 7 train station at 111th Street in Corona.
According to the charges, said the district attorney, King initially claimed that around 11:00 a.m. she was in the station’s break room when a man with a black revolver and stun gun came in, pointed them at her, and duct taped her hands and mouth. He then removed the keys to the ticket booth and took approximately $4,000 from inside of it.
Fellow MTA employees later found King duct taped inside the break room, and King was taken to a police local precinct to file a report.
But following an investigation, cops no longer believed King was the victim, but had instead agreed to split the stolen money with the robber.
Brown told police that King asked if he wanted to make some money and told him to come to the station on Saturday, said the district attorney. She also told him to tie her up with the duct tape so cops would believe the robbery was real.
If convicted, King and Brown face up to seven years in prison.
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