(COLLEGE PARK, MD) \u2013 A Prince George\u2019s County man has been charged with six traffic citations with fines totaling more than $1,800 in connection with reckless driving yesterday in the county.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The driver is identified as Jonathan C. Iraheta, 20, of Beltsville, Md.\u00a0 He was charged on traffic citations with traveling 90 mph in a posted 35 mph zone, reckless driving, negligent driving, aggressive driving, following too closely, and unsafe lane change.<\/p>\n
At about 7:00 p.m., April 3rd<\/sup>, Maryland State Police at the College Park Barrack received multiple calls reporting drivers in high performance vehicles blocking the road and spinning wheels on the inner loop of I-495 near Rt. 1.\u00a0 A trooper was immediately dispatched to the scene and allied police agencies were called to assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n While the trooper was responding, a call was received from Prince George\u2019s County Police reporting the group was now on Rt. 212.\u00a0 The trooper diverted to that location and observed an orange 2020 Dodge Charger being operated recklessly on westbound Rt. 212 at I-95.\u00a0<\/p>\n The trooper stopped the car and identified the operator as Iraheta.\u00a0 The driver was subsequently issued the six traffic citations.\u00a0 The trooper also determined the temporary tag on the car had apparently been altered in an attempt to conceal the actual tag numbers.\u00a0 As a result, Iraheta\u2019s vehicle was stored by State Police, pending further investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n Maryland state troopers have been involved in multiple enforcement operations with county and municipal police aimed at speeding and reckless driving in the Washington Metro region in recent months.\u00a0 Hundreds of citations have been issued during these initiatives.\u00a0 These efforts will be continuing.\u00a0<\/p>\n Obviously, driving behavior witnessed on the Capital Beltway and Rt. 212 yesterday is unlawful, dangerous and a complete disregard for the safety and convenience of others on the highway.\u00a0 The Maryland State Police will continue to take immediate and strict enforcement action whenever possible when these incidents occur.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (COLLEGE PARK, MD) \u2013 A Prince George\u2019s County man has been charged with six traffic citations with fines totaling more than $1,800 in connection with reckless driving yesterday in the county.\u00a0 The driver is identified as Jonathan C. Iraheta, 20, of Beltsville, Md.\u00a0 He was charged on traffic citations with traveling 90 mph in a Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21752,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751\/revisions\/21752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}