ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Sheriff John Mina is issuing a stern warning to teens planning on participating in so-called \u201cteen takeovers.\u201d The Orange County Sheriff joined Scott Anez on Orlando\u2019s Morning News to talk combating these often-violent teen gatherings.<\/p>\n
\u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cTeen takeovers\u201d are described by authorities as large, illegal gatherings of young teens in public places, often organized on social media. The takeovers typically end in violence. <\/p>\n READ: Kissimmee Skate Rink Warns Against Planned Teen Event<\/a><\/p>\n A recent teen takeover at Icon Park ended with nine arrests and two deputies hurt after over a thousand teenagers swarmed the amusement park.<\/p>\n \u201cThey can be very, very dangerous. They can disrupt businesses. They can ruin a fun time for people who are out there just looking to have a good time, so we\u2019re definitely cracking down on it,\u201d Mina said. \u201cIt\u2019s a zero-tolerance approach.\u201d<\/p>\n Click below for the full interview.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Sheriff John Mina is issuing a stern warning to teens planning on participating in so-called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[119426,119427,119428,119429,119430,690,14189,694,16501,119431,119432,119433,119434,11853,704,709,710,3086,658,713,714,715,17345,139,141,140,719,6294,132,119435,725,11279,730],"class_list":["post-279894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-a-car","tag-a-police-car","tag-a-raid","tag-a-siren","tag-a-vehicle","tag-accident","tag-action","tag-background","tag-best","tag-blue-and-red","tag-canadian-police-car","tag-checkpoint","tag-delinquent","tag-department","tag-emergency","tag-flashing","tag-force","tag-free","tag-incident","tag-light","tag-lighting","tag-lights","tag-operation","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-patrol","tag-picture","tag-police","tag-policing","tag-scene","tag-services","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}