Lansing Police issued no citations related to dragway rally
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Despite a large police presence during Friday's rally to support Sloan's Onondaga Dragway, no tickets for reckless driving or street racing were issued.
Lansing Police Department spokeswoman Jordan Gulkis tells 6 News, 'There were no tickets given Friday night related to street racing or reckless driving.'
An estimated 75 cars and 100 people gathered at Everett Plaza to protest a Thursday decision by Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquafina. The decision shutters the raceway, located about 20 minutes south of Lansing, indefinitely.
6 News was on scene when Lansing Police ordered the gathering to break up. Multiple, at least three, police vehicles swept north through the lot to push vehicles and people out through the north drive of the plaza. Overhead, a drone announced that people needed to leave the area.
Sloan's had invited street racers to come to Onondaga, where they could race legally the day before his track was shut down by court order. His offer was in response to a deadly crash on April 24. That crash left a 15-year-old male dead and sent 12 others to a local hospital.
As officers were clearing the Plaza, officers initiated a traffic stop 'in the same block,' Gulkis tells 6 News. That traffic stop was completed a few blocks south on Mason St. Police tell 6 News a male was taken into custody during that traffic stop, and a firearm was recovered from the vehicle.
Gulkis says the department cannot confirm if the car driver was 'officially a part' of the protest in Everett Plaza.
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