Crime & Safety

AP: New York Man Steals Bus in Hoboken; Arrested in Queens

Has record of posing as transit employee

A 45-year-old New Yorker was arrested after he stole a bus in Hoboken and drove off, according to the Associated Press

Darius McCollum was arrested in Queens on Tuesday morning as he was driving a New York Trailways bus after he had taken it from a Hoboken maintenance facility, the AP reported.

Read their full story here: Cops: Habitual Transit Imposter Steals Trailways Bus in Hoboken.

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The Daily Record reported that McCollum's mother said that her son is autistic and that she believes he didn't do it. 

Read their story here: Hoboken bus vanishes, NY transit impostor arrested again

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