With the help of a bit of pre-planning, Antioch police and the California Highway Patrol were able to break up an illegal sideshow on Friday.

Antioch police shared that hundreds of people were involved with the sideshow, but officers were still able to impound some cars and issue citations.

The Antioch Police Department shared in posts on social media that on Friday night, they teamed up with the California Highway Patrol’s Golden Gate division for a “DUI and sideshow suppression detail,” funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety.

“Our planning paid off,” APD wrote in their post. “We located two intersections where more than 200 vehicles and roughly 300 spectators were gathering to start a sideshow.”

The department said that the crowd overtook the intersection at Hillcrest Aven

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