Trio takes MTA bus for joyride, then dumps it over a mile away

Three goons took an MTA bus for a 1.5-mile joyride in Brooklyn on Sunday—the same day a brazen bandit stole and drove a different city bus from the Bronx to Queens and back, police said.

The trio picked up the bus at a MTA depot at Williams Place and Herkimer Street in East New York around 12:30 a.m., cops said.

The empty bus was later recovered on Conduit Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills, according to authorities.

Two of the suspects can be seen on surveillance video—one of them driving the bus, the other standing nearby.

Later that day, around 8 p.m., someone swiped a bus from a shelter for off-duty bus operators at Bruckner Boulevard and Hunts Point Avenue in Longwood section of The Bronx, police said.

MTA officials didn’t locate the vehicle until 4 a.m. Monday, when they checked its location on GPS, according to law enforcement sources.

They found that the vehicle had been taken all the way to Queens, then parked back in the Bronx at Westchester and Prospect avenues—roughly half a mile from where it was stolen, cops said.

That thief also remains at large.