Juveniles Recklessly Ride Motorcycles Causing Traffic Jam, Lakewood Ranch FL
TrafficA large group of juveniles was riding motorcycles recklessly on White Eagle Blvd and nearby roads. They performed wheelies, ran red lights and stop signs, and blocked traffic lanes, causing a major traffic jam.
Audio|Source: Manatee County Sheriff
05:39
Transcript:
00:00
I'm looking at them now.
00:01
They're west of me.
00:03
I'm at the red light.
00:05
On concept, technology going towards the new roundabout and the overpass of I-75.
00:14
10-4[1], maybe we get a couple more units over there.
00:19
No, they made a U-turn, now they're back eastbound on 44 towards Lakewood Ranch and a large group causing a traffic jam riding wheelies.
00:30
Call on RU on Manatee, clearing Paul 1, and fast right in him.
00:35
Super.
00:40
Lake Ranch in 70, Paul.
00:41
All right, I'm just going to make a UE here.
00:46
Go back eastbound on 44, see if I can get my eyes back on them.
00:49
I don't know if they went south on Lakeland Ranch or not.
00:55
Yeah, all of them went southbound, Lakewood Ranch, running the stoplight.
01:00
It's a red light, they're just blazing right through it.
01:07
Sorry, 250, watch is not thin, are they?
01:11
54.
01:16
Yeah, they're spread all over the road, just going southbound in front of Leecom right now, double wide, triple wide, picking up both lanes, right in wheelies, causing a huge traffic back up.
01:30
Can't far.
01:36
One noise 32, go ahead and put me on at 10.50.
01:39
I'm just going to turn my blue lights on just for a second, see if I can get one or two of them to pull over.
01:50
They're totally ignoring me.
01:52
They're running the red light at Malakite, Lakewood Ranch, eastbound on Malakite.
01:57
Totally disregard for any traffic control device or my air horn.
02:14
Through Central Park at a very high rate of speed.
02:17
I turned off my blue lights.
02:20
Go 1 still south on Lake Road Ranch.
02:22
I'll see if I can time 50 in.
02:25
10-4[1].
02:28
As speed through Central Park on Central Park Boulevard is 45 to 50 miles per hour, probably about 35 of them.
02:37
I've actually got four element malachite in Lake and Lake and Range Boulevard.
02:46
I'm back eastbound, following the larger group through Central Park.
02:51
Found on Great Park Boulevard,
02:59
totally disregarding any stop signs?
03:03
Did you advise northbound or southbound?
03:09
One already one ran from the westbound on Malakite towards the parks behind the school.
03:24
We're in the red lights, northbound on Central Park out of the neighborhood, cross 44th.
03:35
They're going to be coming out on Lakewood Ranch Boulevard off of Woodfern.
03:46
CSO5, I'm Northbound on Lakewood Ranch at Los Creek.
03:49
Do you need to block anything off?
03:52
We don't want to block them.
03:54
I'm just hoping one of them will have a good conscience.
03:57
Five of them are pulling into Mallory Park.
04:03
Top of 250, Paul, are we still thinking that these are, you know, under the age of 18?
04:10
Absolutely they are.
04:13
Yeah, 10-4[1]s.
04:17
Going through Mallory Park, they're headed, probably going to come out on White Eagle out of Mallory Park.
04:30
Hey Paul, if they're driving reckless to try to elude from you, just back off of it.
04:38
Yeah,
04:40
they are. They're riding wheelies.
04:42
They're being extremely reckless, running stop lights, running stop signs.
04:50
Yeah, we can just get more units in the area and see if we can maybe look at a couple of them that aren't driving recklesing traffic and educate them.
05:06
One or 81, when you attended that 1050, did any of them stop for you?
05:12
One kid fled, but I've got four here.
05:16
There didn't go anywhere, so I'm 1012 for the four of them.
05:22
Temple, I'll be 51 to you.
05:25
Tom, I'll be 51 to you.
05:27
I doubt that I'll be able to identify them because they were in such a large pack.
05:30
I'm telling you there was least 50 or 60 of them, blocking traffic all over Lakewood Ranch Boulevard, cutting off cars,
05:37
running stop lights, stop signs, total disregard.
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White Eagle Blvd, Lakewood Ranch, FL
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