PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Two men and a teenager were arrested Sunday evening during a car rally in Northeast Philadelphia that included about 200 people and 100 vehicles, police said.
The incident happened just before 7:45 p.m. Sunday on the 500 block of Adams Avenue in the city’s Lawncrest neighborhood.
Alex Collins, an 18-year-old from Honey Brook, Chester County, and 19-year-old James Campitelli from Douglasville, Berks County, and a 16-year-old were charged with criminal conspiracy, failure to disperse and other crimes after According to police there was talk of a car meeting.
Police said an officer, surrounded by the car rally, tried to disperse the crowd of hundreds of people on Adams Avenue.
Afterward, police said a juvenile blocked an officer who responded to the scene by standing in front of the car, leaning on the hood and “indicating with his finger that the officers should not pass.”
Police say the juvenile then ran away and got into a gray Infiniti G35 that Collins was driving.
Collins, Campitelli and the 16-year-old were all arrested after trying to flee the parking lot, police said.
