A Bronx woman has been indicted for falsely reporting a bomb threat aboard a Metro-North train, the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office says.<\/p>\n
Albertyna Mendoza was arraigned Thursday for falsely reporting an incident. She pleaded not guilty and was released.<\/p>\n
In May 2025, while traveling on a New Haven-bound train through Westchester County, Mendoza allegedly sent a series of text messages to 911 falsely claiming a man was carrying a bomb in his hand aboard the train.<\/p>\n
As a result, the train stopped at the Rye station and all passengers and crew were evacuated. Police and K-9 swept the train but did not find any evidence of a bomb.<\/p>\n
Officials say no person matching the description of the man in Mendoza’s text messages was found or seen on video surveillance.<\/p>\n
All passengers and crew were later transferred to a second train to continue their travel.<\/p>\n
Mendoza is expected back in court later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx woman has been indicted for falsely reporting a bomb threat aboard a Metro-North train, the Westchester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-340409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}