“Enforcing traffic laws against these ATVs, we find it to be very challenging,” Assistant Chief Lawrence Terra said in a news conference Monday afternoon. “Often they don’t have registration plates on them, and the operators fail to stop when we indicate our lights and sirens to pull them over. State law prohibits us from using tire deflation devices, as well as setting up roadblocks, and of course, we cannot pursue them under the law because it’s only a motor vehicle or property type crime.”
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