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Woman, 21, goes on mile-long joyride in unattended USPS truck before plowing it into more than a dozen parked cars in NYC

  A 21-year-woman has been arrested for allegedly stealing a USPS truck and taking it on a mile-long joyride before plowing it into more tha...

 A 21-year-woman has been arrested for allegedly stealing a USPS truck and taking it on a mile-long joyride before plowing it into more than a dozen cars in Brooklyn.

Police said the woman, who has not been identified, got behind the wheel of an unoccupied postal truck on Fulton Street and Patchen Avenue in Bed-Stuy around 6:05 p.m. Friday night. 

She then allegedly drove the vehicle for seven blocks crashing into multiple vehicles along the way.

Police sources told New York Daily News she traveled for around a mile slamming into around 14 cars.

Sources said the suspect then tried to flee when the truck packed out at Fulton Street at Kingston Avenue, before NYPD officers pulled her from the car and arrested her.  

A 21-year-woman has been arrested for allegedly stealing a USPS truck and taking it on a mile-long joyride before plowing it into more than a dozen parked cars in Brooklyn

A 21-year-woman has been arrested for allegedly stealing a USPS truck and taking it on a mile-long joyride before plowing it into more than a dozen parked cars in Brooklyn

Police said the woman, who has not been identified, got behind the wheel of an unoccupied postal truck on Fulton Street and Patchen Avenue around 6:05 p.m. Friday night in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood

Police said the woman, who has not been identified, got behind the wheel of an unoccupied postal truck on Fulton Street and Patchen Avenue around 6:05 p.m. Friday night in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood

She then allegedly drove the vehicle for seven blocks crashing into multiple vehicles along the way

 She then allegedly drove the vehicle for seven blocks crashing into multiple vehicles along the way

One of the cars left wrecked after the 21-year-old's Friday night joyride

One of the cars left wrecked after the 21-year-old's Friday night joyride

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Dramatic surveillance footage on NBC New York shows a startled pedestrian looking around at the road at something off camera.

The USPS truck then speeds into shot and slams into the back of a silver car in the road, shoving it into another parked car.

An NYPD cruiser speeds up alongside the truck and two officers jump out with their guns drawn. 


Another cop car parks up behind the truck. 

The truck is seen trying to reverse out of the area but is blocked in.  

Separate footage from the scene shows the postal truck after it had smashed into the back of a silver car.

Dramatic surveillance footage on NBC New York shows the USPS truck speeding into shot and slamming into the back of a silver car in the road

Dramatic surveillance footage on NBC New York shows the USPS truck speeding into shot and slamming into the back of a silver car in the road

An NYPD cruiser speeds up alongside the truck and two officers jump out with their guns drawn

An NYPD cruiser speeds up alongside the truck and two officers jump out with their guns drawn

Separate footage from the scene shows the postal truck after it had smashed into the back of a silver car
Cops open the driver's door and drag the woman out, throwing her to the ground and restraining her

Separate footage from the scene shows the postal truck after it had smashed into the back of a silver car as cops open the driver's door and drag the woman out, throwing her to the ground and restraining her

Two NYPD officers are seen tentatively approaching the driver's door while another officer is seen on the other side of the truck.

One of the officers opens the driver's door and drags the woman out, throwing her to the ground and restraining her. 

Several cops move in as they handcuff the woman.  

An eyewitness told CBS Local he had seen cops with their guns drawn as they swooped on the suspect who was still inside the truck. 

'Officers had their guns out and then they came, when it stopped, they came around and they looked on the,' Newton Pottinger said.  

Police said no one was injured in the commotion but sources said around 14 cars were damaged

Police said no one was injured in the commotion but sources said around 14 cars were damaged 

One of the smashed-up vehicles left in the wake of the Friday night joyride

One of the smashed-up vehicles left in the wake of the Friday night joyride 

Police tape covers the area where the truck has rammed a vehicle into another car in front

Police tape covers the area where the truck has rammed a vehicle into another car in front 

Sources said the suspect then tried to flee when the truck packed out at Fulton Street at Kingston Avenue (above), before NYPD officers pulled her from the car and arrested her

Sources said the suspect then tried to flee when the truck packed out at Fulton Street at Kingston Avenue (above), before NYPD officers pulled her from the car and arrested her

'They came around to the side where the driver was, that's on the sidewalk, they told her to open the door, they told her to put her hands up in the air.' 

Another New Yorker told the outlet his car was one of the multiple damaged in the joyride. 

'When I got hit, I looked in my rear view and that's a mail truck behind me,' said Duncin Odell. 

'I'm like, do I have to chase them? And then I see the cops and I'm like, oh, they're chasing them.' 

Wrecked cars, broke glass and debris were left on the scene of the chaos Friday night.  

Police said no one was injured in the commotion and the USPS truck had been secured. 

The suspect was arrested and charges are pending against her. Her identity has not been released. 

The damaged USPS truck after the carnage. The truck was unoccupied at the time of the theft

The damaged USPS truck after the carnage. The truck was unoccupied at the time of the theft

The aftermath of Friday night's chaos in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn

The aftermath of Friday night's chaos in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn 

Wrecked cars, broke glass and debris were left on the scene of the chaos Friday night

 Wrecked cars, broke glass and debris were left on the scene of the chaos Friday night

Police tape cordoning off the truck after the NYPD arrested the suspect

Police tape cordoning off the truck after the NYPD arrested the suspect 

The suspect was arrested and charges are pending against her. Her identity has not been released

The suspect was arrested and charges are pending against her. Her identity has not been released

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