Police Raid Car Enthusiast Gathering
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Police Raid Car Enthusiast Gathering
Police raid Riverside, California parking lot to issue modified car tickets at local car enthusiast gathering.
Parking lot raid using $503,000 in federal and state gas tax revenue to pay for overtime, nine police agencies in Riverside, California sent more than one hundred police officers to surround a gathering of automotive enthusiasts. Owners of imported sport compact cars had gathered at the Canyon Crossing shopping center on Friday night to swap stories, talk about their passion for cars and show off the latest enhancements to their rides. At around 11pm police surprised participants by blocking all exits with fifty police cruisers. Officers then began a warrantless search and interrogation operation of the 150 vehicles that were present.
"If you're not into street racing, why would you need that?" Riverside Police Traffic Sergeant Skip Showalter asked an enthusiast during a similar crackdown last year. "Why would you want more power going to your car?"
Police issued a total of forty-eight tickets for "engine modifications" with police accusing the owners of the parked vehicles of being street racers. Another fifty tickets were issued for paperwork violations, dark window tinting and lack of a front license plate. The most revenue, however, will be generated from the fees imposed on twenty vehicles that were confiscated. Despite labeling the parking lot raid as taking place at a "street racing venue," Riverside Police offered no evidence that any street racing actually took place.
Across the state, gas tax funds are regularly used to fund similar crackdowns that generate big revenue. In 2004, the California Highway Patrol issued a total of 101,553 "modified car" citations worth $10.5 million according to CHP data obtained by TheNewspaper.
Other law enforcement agencies participating in Friday night's raid included the California Highway Patrol, Riverside County Sheriff's Department, and police from Baldwin Park, Fontana, Irwindale, Moreno Valley, Ontario and Mount San Jacinto Community College.
Parking lot raid using $503,000 in federal and state gas tax revenue to pay for overtime, nine police agencies in Riverside, California sent more than one hundred police officers to surround a gathering of automotive enthusiasts. Owners of imported sport compact cars had gathered at the Canyon Crossing shopping center on Friday night to swap stories, talk about their passion for cars and show off the latest enhancements to their rides. At around 11pm police surprised participants by blocking all exits with fifty police cruisers. Officers then began a warrantless search and interrogation operation of the 150 vehicles that were present.
"If you're not into street racing, why would you need that?" Riverside Police Traffic Sergeant Skip Showalter asked an enthusiast during a similar crackdown last year. "Why would you want more power going to your car?"
Police issued a total of forty-eight tickets for "engine modifications" with police accusing the owners of the parked vehicles of being street racers. Another fifty tickets were issued for paperwork violations, dark window tinting and lack of a front license plate. The most revenue, however, will be generated from the fees imposed on twenty vehicles that were confiscated. Despite labeling the parking lot raid as taking place at a "street racing venue," Riverside Police offered no evidence that any street racing actually took place.
Across the state, gas tax funds are regularly used to fund similar crackdowns that generate big revenue. In 2004, the California Highway Patrol issued a total of 101,553 "modified car" citations worth $10.5 million according to CHP data obtained by TheNewspaper.
Other law enforcement agencies participating in Friday night's raid included the California Highway Patrol, Riverside County Sheriff's Department, and police from Baldwin Park, Fontana, Irwindale, Moreno Valley, Ontario and Mount San Jacinto Community College.
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Something like that happened a while back at Milley's and Woodbine and 16th already. No search warrants, no grounds for the tickets. Went to court and got thrown out by the judge. The next week they smartened up and they sat outside the parkinglot and waited for the cars to leave then pull their asses over.
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see its like cigarettes, you can smoke them under age you can have them, you just cant buy them. its the same with engine mods and upgrades, you can buy them install them, but for some reason there illegal. if companies are selling them , then how r they getting away with it?
the other thing is that i own a muscle car and havent been pulled over yet. i just think the "tuner" scene is getting alot of the blame for street racing etc etc. many in the muscle car scene mod there motors to no extent (new heads, intake, carbs, low end, top end, cams) and police dont say anything. so i dont get the gov. or the police logic on it..... many accidents happen with UN-modified cars. so i just dont get it at all....
the other thing is that i own a muscle car and havent been pulled over yet. i just think the "tuner" scene is getting alot of the blame for street racing etc etc. many in the muscle car scene mod there motors to no extent (new heads, intake, carbs, low end, top end, cams) and police dont say anything. so i dont get the gov. or the police logic on it..... many accidents happen with UN-modified cars. so i just dont get it at all....
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