{"id":175344,"date":"2025-08-25T21:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175344\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:38:15","slug":"police-break-up-street-takeover-in-east-dallas-lake-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175344\/","title":{"rendered":"Police break up street takeover in East Dallas &#038; Lake Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallaspolice.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Police<\/a> recently broke up a group of dirt bike-riding individuals responsible for a \u201cstreet takeover\u201d in East Dallas and Lake Highlands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Police-Car-Getty.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-115328 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Police-Car-Getty.jpg\"   alt=\"Dallas Police\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1245\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to police, officers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallaspolice.net\/division\/northeast\/welcome\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northeast Patrol Division<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallaspolice.net\/divisions\/Pages\/Southwest-SpeedingAndRacingTaskForce.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Street Racing Task Force<\/a> conducted a joint operation on Aug 12. Beforehand, officers had received complaints about a \u201clarge group of motorcycles, dirt bikes and off-road vehicles doing stunts, blocking both directions of travel, and driving dangerously,\u201d near Peavy Road and Buckner Boulevard on Monday nights.<\/p>\n<p>Police say officers, who were in place ahead of the takeover, observed repeated traffic violations while monitoring the group on Aug. 12. Units followed the individuals to the White Rock Lake area and the 10700 block of Miller Road, near Plano Road.<\/p>\n<p>30 citations were issued for expired or insufficient vehicle documentation. Two individuals, 29-year-old Alfred Jenkins and 26-year-old Jose Leyba, were arrested for reckless driving. Jenkins was also charged with unlicensed possession of a firearm. Police seized 12 dirt and e-bikes during the operation, according to the DPD release.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tShare This Story, Choose Your Platform!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/61d51f61716343c54581d9a2202d2162a03d15ee21d797247390707358060186\"  class=\"avatar avatar-72 photo\" height=\"72\" width=\"72\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAustin Wood is the Lake Highlands Editor for The Advocate. You can email him at awood@advocatemag.com\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Police recently broke up a group of dirt bike-riding individuals responsible for a \u201cstreet takeover\u201d in East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-175344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115091570904581879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}