Mount Sinai Man Busted For Doing Burnouts In Parking Lot Of Shopping Center: Police

MOUNT SINAI, NY — A Mount Sinai man has been arrested in connection with a March 9 incident in which he was seen doing burnouts in the parking lot of a shopping center, Suffolk police said.

The 24-year-old was busted on last Thursday on a charge of unlawful speed contest, a misdemeanor, according to police.

He was seen using a 2020 Dodge Ram to do burnouts as part of "a sideshow" in the shopping center's parking lot on Nesconset Highway at around 8 p.m., police said.

He was charged with unlawful speed contest, a misdemeanor, and is due in court for arraignment on April 15, online court records show. There is no defense attorney on file for him.

An 18-year-old Brentwood man was charged with unlawful speed contests, sideshows, and races on March 21, after he was seen at the same location on March 9 by officers from the county's Street Takeover Task Force doing stunts in the shopping center's parking lot, police said.

The department had this word of advice on its Instagram page: "If you’re going to engage in reckless driving behaviors, just because you leave that night with your vehicle and without an arrest, doesn’t mean we won’t find you."

The task force was on patrol the evening of March 9, when officers saw the driver doing stunts in a 2015 Dodge Durango in the parking lot of the same shopping center on Nesconset Highway, police said.

After a 12-day investigation, the vehicle was seized, and the man was arrested, according to police.

His arraignment information was not available.

The shopping center has Rite Aid, Subway, and Chase Bank, among other businesses.