MIAMI – Four people are facing various charges in connection with an alleged street takeover in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood over the weekend.
According to police, officers saw Logan Thomas Hill, 18, of Oakland Park, doing donuts in a gray BMW at Northwest 27th Avenue and 20th Street just after 4:30 a.m. Sunday.
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In the car with him, Miami police said, were front-seat passenger Courtney Holley, 19, of Fort Myers, and rear-seat passengers Jamarse Lee Burns, 19, of Fort Myers, and Nathon Miller Richard, 17, all listed as co-defendants.
Police said several spectators were out of their vehicles recording the takeover and blocking the intersection.
The report states an officer activated his or her cruiser’s emergency lights and Hill drove his vehicle head-on towards the officer, who swerved to avoid a crash.
Police said officers caught up to the group at Northwest 114th Avenue and 72nd Street in Doral about 20 minutes later.
The arrests are “part of an ongoing investigation on groups that are engaged in taking over intersections throughout Miami-Dade County,” according to the arrest report.
“The groups block traffic, preventing emergency vehicles and residents from traveling, police said. “These events have led to numerous shootings and two separate vehicular manslaughter cases.”
Hill is facing the most serious charges of the quartet, including three felonies: aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, fleeing and eluding a police officer and drag racing while masked.
He was being held in Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a bond of more than $10,000 as of Monday evening, according to jail records.
Holley and Burns were both facing charges of resisting an officer without violence.
Details on Richard’s charges weren’t immediately available.