More Than 250 Arrested in Lone Star Rally Weekend Crackdown • Agencies Team Up to Minimize Major Issues During Biker Event Galveston PD and Galveston County Sheriff implemented new tactics over the weekend to keep major issues to a minimum during the Lone Star Rally motorcycle event in Galveston. On the island Galveston PD’s Special Response Group a unit that specializes in crowd control and major events teamed with similar units from Houston PD, Pasadena PD, Texas City PD, Texas DPS and others to provide a show of force and with station teams across the island to enable quick response to any criminal or safety event. A command post in the Galveston Transit Center downtown served as a temporary holding facility for those arrested - mostly for DWI, public intoxication and simple assault cases - and was used. Suspects were then taken to the county jail by van. Meanwhile the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office teamed up with 10 other agencies to blanket the mainland communities of Galveston County for DWI-enhanced enforcement and gang interdiction to catch potential troublemakers before they cross the Causeway onto the island. The Sheriff’s Office had 53 deputies and teams on Interstate 45, State Highway 6, State Highway 3 and State Highway 146 to blanket all the major roadways headed toward the island. On Thursday and Friday the Sheriff’s Office teams made more than 200 traffic stops and 98 arrests for DWI, drug possession, weapons offenses and narcotics offenses. On Saturday roughly 50 arrests had been made by 9 PM. Those arrested were initially processed at a portable jail located at the Texas City Police Department’s Substation at Lago Mar near Interstate 45. Then busloads of 15 to 20 suspects were taken by prisoner bus to the Galveston County Jail on the island. Fullen said funds earmarked for immigration enforcement and enhanced gang interdiction paid for the deputies' overtime and the officers from regional agencies. One of the enforcement efforts broke up what was leading up to a likely rumble between two outlaw biker gangs as the Galveston County-based Bandidos looked to intercept dozens of members of the Brazoria County-based Damaged Souls MC. The two groups - to put it mildly - don’t get along so when Brazoria County law enforcement saw a large group of the Damaged Souls traveling on FM 2004 toward Galveston County a call was made to Galveston County Sheriff Jimmy Fullen. Just as Galveston County Sheriff’s deputies arrived on FM 2004 near the county line a group of Bandidos was already on the road to greet their rival outlaw MC. The law enforcement interdiction netted four to five arrests and the confiscation of several illegal weapons and narcotics. (Photos related to those arrests are located at the end of the video) The show of force and multi-agency approach appeared to pay off keeping major crime incidents at zero during the weekend. Final numbers won’t be available until Monday or Tuesday officials said.

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