I heard about the same thing happening in the late 80's to a messenger except it was 8 red lights and the guy got 8 tickets.
Don't know how it panned out in the end.
In NYC cars run them quite a bit actually, I see it everyday.

A reasonable Judge will reduce it to one ticket. The rider will also pay for the headphone thing which is actually pretty stupid, and he deserves to learn from.
Biking thru red lights though: Meh... They are optional, as long as its safe, if you stop at each one you might as well be driving car.