Street takeover arrests surge across US as summer kicks off with social media-driven crime trend

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 WSOC reported…

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