By Marlyn Montilla
Mar 31, 2024, 16:21 PM EDT
A man convicted of murder in Delaware was arrested carrying a ghost gun and a bag full of crack when he tried to enter a Bronx subway station without paying a fare, authorities reported.
Identified as Jermaine Greene, 42, was trying to pass through an open exit door into the Fordham Road station in University Heights about 5:45 p.m. Thursday when he was caught by officers conducting an inspection at the station. said the officials.
When officers arrested him, they discovered Greene had two open warrants. In addition, they found an untraceable ghost gun and a Ziplock bag of crack cocaine, the New York Police Department (NYPD) explained.
“Apparently, you didn’t get the memo that the NYPD is very focused on traffic safety,” NYPD Traffic Chief Michael Kemper said on Friday X.
“Nor did he get the memo that law-abiding New Yorkers are fed up with open lawlessness at the turnstiles.”
When people question the value of fare evasion enforcement – look no further than THIS example.
A convicted murderer (on parole) was packing heat when he beat the subway fare yesterday. He apparently didn’t get the memo that the NYPD is hyper focused on transit safety. He also… pic.twitter.com/HoQjMM5UNF
— NYPD Chief of Transit (@NYPDTransit) March 29, 2024
The capture was made just hours after Mayor Eric Adams announced to the city that gun detection scanners would soon be used at train stations to help reduce a spike in violence, including three shootings at subway stations, with eight victims.
Kemper, who was with the mayor during the announcement, indicated that his officers have seized 21 firearms so far in 2023.
“His dedicated Transit District 11 police officers confronted him and recovered this loaded ghost gun and cocaine, crack cocaine, felony,” Kemper said on X about Greene’s arrest.
The man was charged with possession of weapons and drugs and fare evasion. His arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court was pending Friday.
“Whether it’s good old-fashioned policing or adopting innovative technology, the NYPD will be steadfast in keeping guns and dangerous criminals out of our subways,” Kemper said. “New Yorkers deserve nothing less.”
Greene was arrested for domestic murder on April 19, 2004, after killing a relative in Delaware, authorities said. He was convicted of murder and released in 2018. Shortly afterward he returned to the Big Apple.
“I don’t think he was going to visit his parole officer tonight,” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell joked on X.
Even before moving to Delaware, Greene was convicted of robbery in the Bronx in 1999 and served three years in prison before being released, court records say.
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