Police trap horde of riders on dirt bikes, ATVs on Bay Bridge following unruly street takeovers - BERITAJA

More than 70 ungraded bikes and all-terrain vehicles were trapped and seized by constabulary connected the Bay Bridge, moreover arsenic immoderate riders abandoned their vehicles and tried to fly connected foot, authorities said.

Sunday’s constabulary action was the consequence of a two-month cognition targeting a group of riders and organizers who constabulary said took complete metropolis streets and intersections, and mostly disrupted nationalist information crossed the San Francisco Bay Area.

“We’re not going to extremity investigating,” Oakland Police Department Interim Chief James Beere said during a news convention Monday. “If you sewage distant [Sunday], conscionable expect a warrant astatine your door.”

The group, composed of dozens of group riding ATVs and ungraded bikes, stopped successful San Leandro connected Sunday earlier heading to a parkland successful eastbound Oakland, Beere said. On the way, members of the group took complete streets — astatine times performing vulnerable stunts connected their vehicles.

Police received aggregate complaints arsenic the horde of riders moved connected to Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco.

But Beere said much than 100 Oakland constabulary officers — including drone operators, SWAT and crime-reduction squad members, arsenic good arsenic immoderate officials moving undercover — had anticipated the event.

As the group headed to San Francisco connected the Bay Bridge, those officers coordinated pinch San Francisco constabulary and the California Highway Patrol to adjacent disconnected the bridge, trapping the riders.

A full of 77 vehicles were seized and 9 group were arrested, Beere said. The charges included 5 misdemeanors, 4 felonies, 2 firearm charges and outstanding warrants.

The investigation is ongoing.

“This isn’t over,” Beere said Monday.

Several of the riders abandoned their vehicles and fled connected foot, including 1 personification who jumped complete a fence, went into the h2o and swam away.

That individual was yet detained by police.

“It was beautiful chaotic,” Beere said. “Everyone did not conscionable stop.”

Some group fleeing connected vehicles escaped custody arsenic officers chose not to prosecute because of their department’s policies.

On Friday, 2 group believed to person organized the takeover arena were besides arrested, Beere said. Officials person not released their identities.

Beere said the section had heard reports that immoderate of the group who fled from constabulary were injured, and he encouraged them to travel forward. He said that, of the group who were detained, nary injuries were reported.

“We’re going to attraction connected the individuals we knew we could apprehension safely,” he said. “We’re not going to consequence the participants’ safety, the officers’ safety, aliases the wide public’s safety.”

Beere said the section still had video grounds to travel up on, and expects much arrests to follow.