Juvenile Charged In ‘Particularly Dangerous’ Dirt Bike Incidents: Meriden PD

MERIDEN, CT — A Meriden juvenile has been arrested in connection with several dirt bike incidents in the city over the past couple of months, according to police.

The juvenile was arrested July 21 on three arrest warrants that stemmed from several incidents over June and July in which the juvenile “recklessly operated a dirt bike on the streets throughout Meriden,” according to police.

“The Meriden Police Department Neighborhood Initiative Officers had heard numerous complaints at neighborhood meetings regarding illegal and unsafe operation of dirt bikes and ATVs throughout Meriden,” police wrote in a news release. “The Meriden Police Department Patrol Division along with the Neighborhood Initiative Unit were able to successfully investigate, document and apply for arrest warrants for the same juvenile in three separate incidents. These were particularly dangerous since the juvenile would operate on the wrong side of the road and ride wheelies through stop signs on several occasions.”

The juvenile was charged with multiple counts in three different arrest warrants for second-degree reckless endangerment, reckless driving, operating an unregistered motor vehicle, operating a motorcycle without an operator’s license with a motorcycle endorsement, failure to obey stop sign, disobeying the signal of an officer, traveling too fast for conditions, unsafe passing and failure to drive in proper lane on a multi-lane highway.

The juvenile was sent to the Hartford Juvenile Detention Center to await trial, according to police.