Riverside County law enforcement officials are ratcheting up operations to crack down on so-called “sideshows,” which involve vehicle stunts on public roads, recently initiating surveillance in the Temecula Valley that netted nearly a dozen arrests and multiple vehicle impoundments.
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The operation focused on the unincorporated community of De Luz, just west of Temecula, where residents had been complaining about noisy sideshows that posed public safety risks, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Officer Mike Lassig said on Friday night, three officers from the agency’s Temecula station and six county sheriff’s deputies set up a surveillance at the location that residents had identified as the source of trouble, and “at approximately 11:15 p.m., a large group of motorists arrived … and began engaging in sideshow activities.”
Lassig said a total of seven vehicles were involved in the stunts, and the participants’ ages ranged from 17 to 24, though one motorist had an infant in his car…