Caught on Video - Thieves Drive Off with School Buses

Thieves Caught on Video In the Driver's Seat

Police released surveillance video of thieves behind the wheels of school buses stolen from a Bronx depot. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein

NYC News Network

October 26, 2023

BRONX - Smile! Youthful suspects who took a triplet of school transports for a joy ride  from a Bronx bus depot were discovered on camera driving the taken transports. Police delivered the new video trying to get the thieves.

Cops said bus thieves broke into the transports at the depot on Blondell Road off of Westchester Square at around 12 pm on Tuesday. They drove off with three short buses that the company said were extras and not in assistance.

When the thieves hopped in the driver's seat and drove the transports through the front entryway and off the part, cameras in every one of the transports enacted catching the drivers in real life.

As per distributed reports, one of the transports was recuperated before a school in Crotona Park.

One more of the taken transports was viewed on the vehicle's GPS as following to Springfield Gardens, Queens.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 

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