BEND, OR -- A pair of 22-year-old men from Redmond face criminal charges after videos allegedly showing them street racing in Bend turned up on social media. Mason Price and Tyler Fox were cited for Reckless Driving. Price is also accused of Driving While Suspended.

Sheila Miller, with Bend Police, tells KBND News, "Street racing has long been an issue in Central Oregon." But investigators don't often get such details videos of the criminal activity. "Their license plates were visible and sometimes there were faces visible in videos, as well," says Miller.

"We received a traffic complaint on the night of one of these incidents, of a person who witnessed it. And then, our department also received information about these Instagram posts from a member of the public," says Miller, "So it just kind of led down a rabbit hole, and it became clear that this was behavior that was happening repeatedly by the same people." 

The videos from August show cars racing around the 18th and Cooley roundabout and other locations, "Some of them appear to be in Tumalo, some of them appear to be roundabouts in Bend. The middle video is on Archie Briggs." 

Miller tells KBND News Bend PD takes street racing very seriously because the incidents can have deadly consequences. "You can see that to go that quickly through a roundabout does require an awful lot of squealing tires and dangerous placement of your vehicles. 18th and Cooley is a bit off the beaten path still. It’s quite close to Juniper Ridge. Perhaps people think that it’s a safer spot; it is not. There’s cross traffic visible in some of the videos that we were able to access." 

The investigation is ongoing, and more citations may follow. 

Image captured from the street racing video released by Bend Police.