Teenage e-bikers in this Southern California city are targeting people and businesses
In one city in Southern California, police say teens on e-bikes are frightening the area by shooting people with airsoft guns and other weapons.
In a post on Thursday, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s Lake Forest office said, “Parents, we need your help.” “We want everyone to have a good time this summer, but when the fun turns dangerous, we need to enforce the law.”
Police say teens have been riding electric motorbikes and e-bikes around Foothill Ranch Towne Center without a helmet, damaging property, and “assaulting” customers and businesses with airsoft guns.
Deputies have increased patrols in response to the events, and two electric motorcycles that they just captured are shown in an Instagram post.
The sheriff’s department stated, “As a reminder, e-motorcycles such as Sur-ron, Talaria, 79 Bike, RAWR Mantis, Stark, etc., are for off-highway use only and are not street legal.” “We will continue to address unsafe e-motorcycle and e-bike concerns through education and enforcement, and any criminal behavior will be investigated as such.”
This summer has seen an increase in teenage electric bike incidents in Southern California.
The Lake Forest advisory was issued a month after Huntington Beach, which is close by, authorized a number of new limitations on their use as a result of an upsurge in complaints and injuries, according to local authorities.
A group of at least twelve e-bikers further north startled onlookers at the Hermosa Beach Pier by launching illicit pyrotechnics into the throng.