18-year-old accused of train joyrides, assaulting MTA employee to undergo second mental evaluation

Justine Randall will now undergo another psychiatric evaluation after a Thursday court hearing on charges from three separate incidents involving trains in Brooklyn. It came after she failed to appear the previous day and a bench warrant was issued.

“This is the seventh opportunity, meaning six instances where she has been released without anyone doing anything, any prior judges holding her, even at the risk of our customers and the risk of my employees,” New York City Transit President Demetrius Crichlow said.

Crichlow says it’s about time bail was set for the 18-year-old who, just this year alone, is accused of pepper spraying a transit employee in Brooklyn, going into a conductor’s cab at the last stop on the 5 train in the Bronx and steeling an employee’s bag…

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