Rampaging woman smashed MetroCard machines with a hammer in Brooklyn

July 30, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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SOUTH MIDWOOD — POLICE ARE SEARCHING for a woman who removed a hammer from her backpack and smashed up the MetroCard machines at the Flatbush Avenue 2 and 5 subway train lines on Wednesday, July 3 at roughly 1 p.m. The woman caused an “unspecified amount” of damage to the equipment and then fled on foot, police said.

Anyone with information regarding her identity is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782), visit the Crime Stoppers website or on X @NYPDTips. 

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