CLEARWATER, Fla. – Clearwater Police traffic enforcement team officers arrested four people for street racing over the Memorial Day weekend.
In addition, officers made 26 DUI arrests during the three-day effort to make the streets of Clearwater safer.
The first street racing incident occurred about 3 a.m. Sunday on South Missouri Avenue, when two cars were observed racing one another in the southbound lanes.
Their speeds hit 90 mph – twice the speed limit.
Clay Tassillo, 18, of Largo and Michael Allen Lewis, 36, of St. Petersburg were each charged with racing on a highway. Tassillo was working as a food service delivery driver at the time; when stopped by an officer, he said he was sorry for messing around and acknowledged he should not have been speeding like that.
The second incident occurred 24 hours later – at about 3 a.m. Monday.
That’s when a car driven by Cameron White was observed traveling more than 100 mph eastbound on the Memorial Causeway, with he and his passenger actively trying to get other cars to race. White, 24, of Palm Harbor and his passenger, William James Thompkins Jr., 24, of Palm Harbor were charged with racing on a highway.
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