MIAMI – Bike riders again defied law enforcement warnings Monday and participated in the annual Wheels Up, Guns Down ride Monday.
It’s taken place annually during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend and on MLK Day.
Multiple law enforcement agencies, including Florida Highway Patrol, said they were monitoring roads for violators, many of whom ride dirt bikes and ATVs.
On Monday afternoon, a group of riders traversed the streets of Miami. It appeared all were on bicycles as they went from the Wynwood neighborhood to Brickell and into Coconut Grove.
Some of the riders drove against oncoming traffic after getting to Coconut Grove. The group began to thin before it went into Coral Gables.
At one point, riders swarmed a gas station on 79th Street just off I-95, leaving it trashed.
Police said over 621 citations were given out, 165 arrests were made, 25 firearms were impounded, 82 vehicles were impounded and 16 stolen vehicles were recovered.
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