{"id":347688,"date":"2026-09-15T21:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347688\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:12:41","slug":"4-connecticut-residents-arrested-in-connection-with-street-takeover-in-new-york-nbc-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347688\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Connecticut residents arrested in connection with street takeover in New York \u2013 NBC Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four Meriden residents were arrested on Sunday in connection with a street takeover on Long Island on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A 28-year-old was charged with reckless driving, unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the third degree, and unlawful speed contests, sideshows, and races. A 33-year-old, 30-year old, and 35-year-old were charged with unlawful speed contests, sideshows, and races.<\/p>\n<p>Officers with the Suffolk County, New York, Police Department\u2019s Street Takeover Task Force responded to Express Drive North in Yaphank, New York, around 1:10 a.m. Sunday after a 911 caller reported a large gathering of vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, they saw two vehicles racing before the vehicles dispersed, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Officers later stopped a truck that was towing a trailer carrying a race car and arrested four people, all from Meriden. The truck, trailer, and race car were also impounded, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We welcome visitors to Suffolk County. But if your plans include illegal street racing, you may want to reconsider the trip,&#8221; Suffolk County police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/19PwPDjHw3\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/19PwPDjHw3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrote in a Facebook post<\/a>. &#8220;Our Street Takeover Task Force will continue targeting this dangerous activity \u2014 no matter where those involved call home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The people charged will be arraigned at a later date, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Meriden residents were arrested on Sunday in connection with a street takeover on Long Island on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2222,130078,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-347688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-connecticut","tag-meriden","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}