A man was busted on a Brooklyn subway Monday morning after “waving” a gun around while walking from car to car, cops said.
Travis Askew, 33, was on a Manhattan-bound J train when he allegedly whipped out the revolver, cops said.
“He was waving it around,” a police source said.
An alarmed straphanger called 911 to report him and that call triggered a radio transmission to the train’s motorman, who was told to lock the doors at Broadway Junction, police said.
The 33-year-old was on a Manhattan-bound J train when he whipped out the revolver and was waving it around. Gabriella BassCops went onto the train there and arrested him just before 6 a.m.
When cops searched him, they found the revolver in his backpack and a dagger in his belt, police said.
Askew was charged with menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment, police said.
There were no injuries.
He has three prior arrests, two of them are sealed, a police source said. He was arrested on Oct. 31, 2013, and charged with robbery after demanding a 25-year-old man’s phone in Queens and then tackling him when he refused, the source said.
