SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) – Another arrest has been made as Springfield Police continue efforts to crack down on illegal dirt bikes and off-highway vehicles on city streets.

Investigators were conducting an off-highway-vehicle enforcement detail on Thursday when they reportedly saw two unregistered motorcycles – a moped that was classified as a motorcycle and a motorcycle designed as a dirt bike - around 6 p.m. The riders were stopped along the 300 block of Allen Street and police learned that neither bike was insured and neither rider was licensed.

At approximately 5:55 p.m., officers observed two riders on unregistered motorcycles. One was a moped classified as a motorcycle, the second was a motorcycle designed as a dirt bike. It did not have headlights, brake lights or rear-view mirrors. Once the riders stopped on the 300 block of Allen Street, officers conducted a traffic stop. Neither bike was insured nor was either rider licensed.

One rider, 21-year-old Brayden Canning of Springfield, was arrested on an outstanding warrant on a charge of unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, as well as charges related to Thursday’s incident including unregistered motor vehicle, uninsured motor vehicle, and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

The other rider, a 19-year-old man, was issued criminal complaint

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