{"id":21930,"date":"2021-04-21T11:54:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=21930"},"modified":"2021-04-21T20:28:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T00:28:56","slug":"police-continue-efforts-to-combat-street-racing-and-excessive-exhaust-noise-in-montgomery-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2021\/04\/21\/police-continue-efforts-to-combat-street-racing-and-excessive-exhaust-noise-in-montgomery-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Continue Efforts To Combat Street Racing And Excessive Exhaust Noise In Montgomery County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(ROCKVILLE, MD) \u2013 As part of their ongoing efforts to address street racing and excessive exhaust noise in Montgomery County, police continue initiatives in concentrated areas known for the noise and illegal activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The initiative took place yesterday in the area of MD Route 355 between Rockville and Gaithersburg.\u00a0 The coordinated efforts among Montgomery County law enforcement partners included Maryland State Police from the Rockville Barrack, officers from the Gaithersburg Police Department, Rockville City Police, Montgomery County Police and the Maryland Transportation Authority Police.<\/p>\n<p>The combined efforts of all five law enforcement agencies working from 8:00 p.m. to midnight in Montgomery County to address aggressive driving, street racing and the excessive noise caused by modified exhaust systems yielded the following results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>125 citations and warnings<\/li>\n<li>49 safety equipment repair orders<\/li>\n<li>\u00a02 criminal arrests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maryland State Police highway safety initiatives in this region and throughout the state will continue, in cooperation with local law enforcement partners.\u00a0 Please obey the speed limit, do not drive aggressively or impaired and always buckle up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Office of Media Communications \u2013 msp.media@maryland.gov<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ROCKVILLE, MD) \u2013 As part of their ongoing efforts to address street racing and excessive exhaust noise in Montgomery County, police continue initiatives in concentrated areas known for the noise and illegal activity. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The initiative took place yesterday in the area of MD Route 355 between Rockville and Gaithersburg.\u00a0 The coordinated efforts among Montgomery<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2021\/04\/21\/police-continue-efforts-to-combat-street-racing-and-excessive-exhaust-noise-in-montgomery-county\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"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":[17,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barracksn-rockville","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21930","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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21939,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21930\/revisions\/21939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}