Late-night car events plague Laurel, Beltsville communities

Joe Theis thought the sounds that woke him at 1:30 a.m. on a recent Sunday morning were gunshots or fireworks.

“It was loud as hell, I’ll tell you that. It was very disturbing,” said Theis, who lives in the Victoria Falls community in Laurel. “People that we know at the other end of the community, over 100 yards away, said they heard it too.”

But the noise wasn’t gunfire or fireworks. Theis said it came from vehicles revving their engines during a late-night car gathering near his community on Sept. 13…

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