HOBOKEN —A Harlem man was arrested on Tuesday in Queens after he took a New York Trailways bus from a Hoboken maintenance facility for a joyride, according to published reports.
Darius McCollum, 45, has reportedly been arrested multiple times for posing as a transit worker. McCollum was arrested when he was 15 years old for commandeering a subway train, and has been arrested a total of 26 times, according to the AP.
The 52-seat bus had keys in the ignition and the man walked into the facility, got on the bus, and drove away, according to the report.
In the report, McCollum’s mother said the man is autistic and doesn’t mean to harm anyone. She also said, in the report, that she didn’t believe he had stolen the bus.
The man was stopped on an entrance ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway, according to the AP.