Why bother waiting for a bus when you can steal one? It’s being reported that a New York City man stole one from American Airlines at JFK. He managed to drive it “across multiple boroughs before he was stopped by police.”
Bus thief in custody
An opportunist managed to climb “behind the wheel of the full size AA employee shuttle bus shortly before 2 a.m. after it was left running in an airport lot.”
In New York City, leaving the keys in the ignition isn’t a wise idea. Even at the airport’s employee lot. The bus thief then drove from Queens to Brooklyn before cops spotted the well marked American Airlines transport van.
They also allegedly had help from an airline employee who trailed it off the lot. Or, one who spotted the bus independently and called it in. The reports aren’t clear.
NYPD arrests 43 year old Burshawn Quildon after leading police on a chase with a stolen American Airlines shuttle bus.https://t.co/2ZCOMVompE
— The Tornado News (@TheTornadoNews) March 1, 2023
Police followed the employee shuttle “across the Brooklyn Bridge, where he pulled over near Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza.” It was a good try, cops admit.
Once they got him stopped, 43-year-old Burshawn Quildon cooperated fully. “I’m going to jail, right?” He quipped and was arrested “without incident,” NYPD confirms.
The suspect “was the only person aboard the bus.” That’s the only part of the whole story which upsets the liberal locals. He may be charged with grand theft auto but they’ll throw the book at him for careless use of resources.
Additional details coming in
Whether he has a license or not, he apparently knows how to drive and wasn’t exceptionally impaired. “There were no injuries or reports of damage to other vehicles.”
Even if all he was doing was grabbing the chance for a quick and free ride to Brooklyn, courtesy of a careless shuttle bus driver, Quildon got booked for grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. The investigation, police say, is ongoing.
A lot of sources are covering the same ground in different ways. Some of the details floating around not already mentioned include that the chase lasted between 15-19 miles from Lot 12. Also it’s been sketchily reported that “an airport employee followed the bus and called the police.”
Burshawn Quildon stole an American Airlines bus and went on a 17-mile joyride with police on the chase.https://t.co/aUI4kJ3bwi
— Metro (@MetroUK) March 2, 2023
Another version says he was driving in, spotted the bus and alerted police. “Quildon drove on the Van Wyck Expressway and Grand Central Parkway in Queens, FDR Drive in Manhattan and across the Brooklyn Bridge into Brooklyn, where it was finally pulled over on Cadman Plaza West.”
When they got the bus pulled over, Quildon could be heard “asking officers if he was going to jail as they arrested him, ‘I’m going to jail, right?’” The Brooklyn Police know him well. He’s a lot like one of the regulars for Barney Miller.
Quildon’s last arrest was “for domestic robbery in 2015, but he is said to have had numerous other arrests including robbery, marijuana possession, assault and transit fraud.“
