Man Arrested For Gun Possession At Church Avenue Subway Station

Police say they arrested a man at the Church Avenue subway station for carrying a loaded gun after he was caught trying to enter the station using a student MetroCard that he wasn’t supposed to have.

On Wednesday, November 13 at about 3:20pm, the NYPD says that Police Officer Diandre Campbell, assigned to Brooklyn Transit Impact, and Police Officer Randal McFarland, assigned to Transit District 32, were on patrol in the Church Avenue subway station when they saw the suspect, 27-year-old Nestor Alexander, enter the station using the student ID. The officers, seeing that the man was obviously not a student, stopped him to question him. Upon verifying he wasn’t a student, police say a name check revealed that he was a transit recidivist, which they say makes him not eligible to receive a summons.

So the officers placed Alexander under arrest, and while searching his bag, police say they found a 6-shot Taurus .38-caliber revolver with five live rounds, pictured above, inside. Alexander has been charged with criminal possession of a weapon.