MARYLAND

Police: Unregistered dirt bikes seized from Salisbury home; suspects escape

The Daily Times

The Salisbury Police Department's Safe Streets Team has launched a special operation targeting the city's illegal dirt bike riders.

This unregistered dirt bike is one of three Salisbury police recovered from a home on Shiloh Street.

It is illegal to drive dirt bikes on Maryland streets without proper registration, and, according to police, there have been several reports in August of suspects recklessly driving unregistered dirt bikes through Salisbury.

Police spotted three suspects on unregistered dirt bikes leave a house in the 700 block of Shiloh St. at 6 p.m. on Thursday. As the officers followed the suspects, police said the dirt bike drivers committed several traffic violations.

The officers tried to stop the suspects, according to police, but they sped away and were not pursued. Officers continued watching the house on Shiloh Street, and at 10:45 p.m., police said, they spotted the suspects returning to store the unregistered dirt bikes.

Officers obtained and served a search and seizure warrant, which allowed them to recover the dirt bikes, according to police. However, the suspects fled the home before officers were able to take them into custody.

Police said they are working to identify the suspects. Members of the Maryland State Police Gang Enforcement Unit assisted the Safe Streets Team in their investigation, according to a news release.

On Tuesday, the Salisbury Police Department shared a video that had been circulating on social media of dirt bikers weaving through traffic on Route 13, asking for the public's help in identifying the masked drivers.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Salisbury Police Department at 410-548-3165.

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