18-year-old arrested in NYC subway carrying AK-47, loaded magazine

New York police on Friday arrested an 18-year-old from Ohio for carrying an AK-47 and a loaded magazine on a subway near Times Square in Manhattan.

The teen, identified as Saadiq Teague, carried the unloaded weapon with him onto the city’s metro, but police did not provide a reason as to why he had the gun on his person.

“.@NYPDTransit cops on ‘routine’ patrol in the @TimesSquareNYC subway station recovered this AK-47 & a loaded magazine from an 18 y/o from Ohio,” New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted.

“This story could’ve had a tragically different ending, but thanks to these diligent cops it ends with the suspect in handcuffs.” 

.@NYPDTransit cops on “routine” patrol in the @TimesSquareNYC subway station recovered this AK-47 & a loaded magazine from an 18 y/o from Ohio.

This story could’ve had a tragically different ending, but thanks to these diligent cops it ends with the suspect in handcuffs. pic.twitter.com/SkSyBzMdfV

— Commissioner Shea (@NYPDShea) April 16, 2021

Police announced the arrest Friday afternoon and assured the public there was no current threat.

The teen is facing two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree; criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree; and criminal possession in the third degree relating to an ammunition clip.