Additional arrests made during crackdown on illegal street racing in Maryland

BALTIMORE, MD—The Maryland Car Rally Task Force has expanded its crackdown on illegal exhibition driving, resulting in several additional last weekend. Maryland State Police say 26-year-old Jose Manuel Zapata of Pennsylvania was charged with loaded handgun on person, handgun on person, handgun in vehicle, and loaded handgun in vehicle after he was stopped by police on August 25 in Baltimore. […]

Police target illegal street racing in Baltimore County, issue hundreds of citations

NOTTINGHAM, MD—During a four-day, high visibility traffic enforcement initiative to combat illegal racing in Baltimore County, troopers, along with Baltimore County police, issued over 300 traffic citations and warnings for a variety of offenses, including speeds that reached 106 mph. Throughout this initiative, which took place in the areas of I-70, I-695, and I-795, from Thursday through Sunday, troopers from […]

Baltimore County street racing crackdown leads to 120 citations

PIKESVILLE, MD – A joint law enforcement initiative to combat aggressive driving and illegal street racing on Friday night led to 120 citations issued to motorists in Baltimore County. Traffic enforcement efforts by Maryland state troopers and Baltimore County officers during the eight-hour operation resulted in 130 traffic stops on Friday, June 7, 2019. The initiative resulted in 130 traffic […]

Illegal street racer arrested in Essex

An Abingdon man was arrested after a Maryland State Police broke up an illegal street race on Sunday. At just before 6 p.m., a State Trooper was on routine patrol in the area of Kelso Drive at Rossville Boulevard, in Essex, when he saw several heavily-modified, high-performance vehicles, traveling westbound on Kelso Drive, a known hot spot for illegal street […]