It might be a long summer if you decide to street race in Aurora.
“We are going to continue making stops. We’re going to continue making arrests. We will tow your car and you will receive a summons,” said Agent Matthew Longshore with Aurora Police.
Aurora Police is putting the brakes on illegal street racing in the city, starting last weekend. The department partnered with eight other police agencies for a metro street racer enforcement operation.
It was a 10-hour operation resulting in 21 traffic stops, two arrests, one criminal citation. 13 traffic tickets, six towed vehicles and one recovered firearm.
“We know these people are armed. That creates a recipe for disaster, knowing that these people not only are breaking the law by going on these, private parking lots, recklessly driving, but also that they’re armed and considering shooting in the air at whoever it might be. Leads to the extra dangerous factors of this,” said Longshore.