Agencies across the country have been busy making arrests responding to street "takeovers" as the U.S. enters the summer months.
Police departments in Charlotte, North Carolina; Clearwater, Florida; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Naperville, Illinois, have all made arrests in the last two days, all because of this growing social-media-driven crime trend.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department arrested 28-year-old Jefferies Hernandez-Moreno, who is the accused mastermind of a takeover involving "100 motorcycles" that swarmed a South Charlotte intersection, local news outlet racing and doing burnouts among other offenses.
Naperville Police made three arrests and issued 20 citations after "about 100 teens" gathered near The Naperville Riverwalk, a popular park in the affluent Chicago-area suburb, public safety will be met with zero tolerance and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law."