{"id":9422,"date":"2021-03-31T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=9422"},"modified":"2021-03-31T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:31:23","slug":"enforcement-initiative-aimed-at-street-racing-nets-53-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/03\/31\/enforcement-initiative-aimed-at-street-racing-nets-53-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"ENFORCEMENT INITIATIVE AIMED AT STREET RACING NETS 53 ARRESTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_1185.jpg?resize=270%2C202&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9423\" width=\"270\" height=\"202\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the evening of March 28, 2021, the Lakeland Police Department along with the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Florida Highway Patrol conducted a target-specific operation aimed at combating illegal street racing. The operation named \u201cNo Need for Speed\u201d was in response to the numerous complaints received from property owners, tenants and citizens about street racing groups.\u00a0Detectives responded to the preplanned meeting location at 6870 First Park Boulevard in Lakeland, Florida that drew a crowd of more than 300 people. No Trespassing signage is prominently displayed at the property. Officers observed several individuals driving recklessly, doing burnouts and donuts in the parking areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lakeland PD\" width=\"1110\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OEWpvqM66aE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>During the operation, a total of 53 arrests were made and 165 citations were issued. Detectives also recovered seven guns, seized a variety of illegal street drugs, and impounded 31 vehicles for illegal street racing. Out of the total arrests made, 92% resided out of Polk County.\u00a0Past experiences have also shown that often small groups splinter off from these larger events, blocking the flow of traffic for drifting and racing on public roadways and highways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1656\" height=\"2560\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Unknown-scaled.jpeg?fit=663%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Unknown-scaled.jpeg?w=1656&amp;ssl=1 1656w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Unknown-scaled.jpeg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Unknown-scaled.jpeg?resize=663%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 663w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Unknown-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C1187&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Unknown-scaled.jpeg?resize=994%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 994w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Unknown-scaled.jpeg?resize=1325%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1325w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of March 28, 2021, the Lakeland Police Department along with the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Florida Highway Patrol conducted a target-specific operation aimed at combating&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}