Overview
- Officers intercepted a street takeover in Medford after vehicles shut down Sawgrass Drive/Woodside Avenue and participants performed donuts and burnouts in the roadway.
- Suffolk County’s Street Takeover Task Force tracked the same group through multiple towns and deterred planned takeovers in Islip and Patchogue before the Medford intervention.
- Fifteen people were arrested, seven vehicles were impounded, and multiple traffic tickets were issued with suspects scheduled to appear in Central Islip court.
- Most arrestees face charges of participation in and spectating an unlawful speed contest while one person was charged only with participation, and police released names and hometowns showing suspects from Long Island and New York City.
- Police shared photos showing smoke from vehicles doing donuts and said the enforcement push is part of a wider effort to use inter-jurisdictional tracking, evidence collection and impoundment to deter future takeovers.