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I-285 Street Takeover Arrests Near Glenwood Road in DeKalb County: Three Named in the Latest Round, a Fourth Named Separately

DeKalb County police announced arrests on Aug. 12, 2026 over an illegal street racing takeover on I-285 near the Glenwood Road exit. The WSB-TV headline says three people were arrested. The body of the same story names four. This page publishes both, because they describe different things. The charges are traffic and racing-promotion offenses, and everyone named is charged, not convicted. One newsroom stands behind this account.

What DeKalb County police say happened

WSB-TV reported on Aug. 12, 2026 that DeKalb County police have arrested three people in connection with an illegal street racing takeover on one of metro Atlanta's busiest interstates. The station's story is bylined Scott Flynn and timestamped Aug. 12, 2026 at 2:47 p.m. EDT.

The location is the one detail every part of the account agrees on. WSB-TV reports that video posted to YouTube shows the racers turning I-285 into a racetrack near the Glenwood Road exit, and that the same video shows drivers doing burnouts, donuts, and racing down I-285. The station describes moving cars just inches away from people with their phones out, capturing it all on camera, and others standing along the exit ramps.

That is a description of a video. It is not a finding about any named person. Nothing in the record compiled for this page identifies any of the four people named below as a person appearing in that footage, and this page does not place any of them in it. The distinction is not pedantic. A reader who slides from “a video shows racing” to “these four are the people in the video” has made a leap no source has made.

The charges themselves are traffic and racing-promotion offenses. Bald tires. Illegal window tint. Driving without valid decals. Promoting or organizing racing. One count of felony fleeing or attempting to elude, against one person. Nobody named here is accused of hurting anyone, and no injury and no death appears anywhere in the record compiled for this page.

The headline says three. The story names four.

The WSB-TV headline reads “3 more arrested in connection with illegal I-285 street racing takeover.” The body of that same story names four people. Naysean Lee. Tariq Lumley. Tymel Mabry. And Ruben Tejada Arevalo.

This page is not going to quietly pick one of those numbers. Choosing three would drop a named man out of a story that names him. Choosing four would flatly contradict the headline of the only newsroom reporting it. Both moves would hand a reader a tidier page and a less accurate one.

Here is what the story actually supports. Three is the count of the latest round of arrests: Lee, Lumley and Mabry, whom WSB-TV describes as a driver and two of his passengers, and whom investigators said were stopped following the racing incident. Arevalo is presented differently. In WSB-TV's words, “The latest arrests come in addition to the arrest of Ruben Tejada Arevalo from that night.” He is an earlier arrest carrying a different, heavier set of charges, including the only felony count anywhere in this story.

So both numbers are true about different things — three newly arrested, four named in total — and a reader who sees only the headline will undercount the people whose names are now permanently attached to this event. That is the whole reason this section exists.

There is a second, smaller mismatch inside the same page. The browser title on WSB-TV's story reads “Three arrested in DeKalb County I-285 street racing takeover,” while the headline printed on the page reads “3 more arrested.” The word more is doing real work: with it, three is a count of an increment; without it, three reads as the total. Both versions ship on the same URL.

The Arevalo problem, laid out plainly

The fourth name carries a complication that a reader deserves to see rather than have resolved for them.

WSB-TV's Aug. 12 story places Arevalo's arrest at the I-285 event, describing it as the arrest “of Ruben Tejada Arevalo from that night,” and lists his charges as promoting or organizing drag racing, reckless stunt driving, felony fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer, and illegal window tint.

WSB-TV's own earlier story, published Aug. 11, 2026, places the same name, the same four charges and the same agency at a different event entirely. That story, bylined Ashlyn Webb and timestamped Aug. 11, 2026 at 6:33 p.m. EDT, reports: “On Aug. 2, video shows a suspect being taken into custody while others behind him are still doing donuts in the intersection of Covington Highway and Wesley Chapel Road.” It then reports that DeKalb County police say they arrested one man, 23-year-old Ruben Tejada Arevalo, on that same list of four charges. The DeKalb County Police Department's full written statement, quoted in that story, says the same thing in the department's own voice, tying Arevalo to “the August 2 incident at Covington Highway and Wesley Chapel Road.”

Those are two different places and two different dates. A surface street intersection is not an interstate. Aug. 2 is not the weekend the arrest story describes. The Aug. 11 story, moreover, says of the I-285 event itself: “We asked about this case, but we haven't heard any details of an investigation or arrests.”

This page does not resolve that. It is not this site's place to decide that one of a newsroom's two stories is the wrong one, and it would be worse to silently adopt whichever version reads more smoothly. What this page does instead is state both, attribute both, and decline to write a sentence that places Ruben Tejada Arevalo on I-285.

On his age, the same split appears. The Aug. 12 arrest story publishes no age for Arevalo. The Aug. 11 story identifies “23-year-old Ruben Tejada Arevalo” in connection with the Aug. 2 Covington Highway incident. This page prints no age for him in its fact card, its headline or its own voice, and records the Aug. 11 figure here only as what that story says, attached to the event that story attaches it to.

Charged, not convicted — and what that governs here

Naysean Lee, Tariq Lumley, Tymel Mabry and Ruben Tejada Arevalo have been arrested and charged. None of them has been convicted of anything. No plea, no hearing outcome, no disposition and no sentence appears in the record compiled for this page.

That governs the grammar of every sentence on this page, not just a disclaimer at the bottom. No line here says anyone raced. No line says anyone fled from an officer. No line says anyone organized anything. The verbs belong to the police and the paperwork: police say, is charged with, according to WSB-TV. A story about street racing invites vivid writing — engines, a crowd, a car pulling away — and every bit of that would be invented. Nothing in the record compiled for this page establishes that any named person did any of it.

The stakes are ordinary and permanent. These names are now searchable next to the phrase “street racing.” If a prosecutor never files, if a count is dropped, if a judge dismisses, the page that narrated the allegation as an event does not un-narrate itself. So it is not written that way in the first place.

Who is named, and what each is charged with

Naysean Lee, 24. WSB-TV reports that DeKalb County police said they arrested one of the drivers, Naysean Lee, 24, and have charged him with promoting or organizing street racing, bald tires, illegal window tint, and driving without valid decals. Three of those four are equipment and registration offenses.

Tariq Lumley, 23, and Tymel Mabry, 27. WSB-TV describes them as two of Lee's passengers and reports that each has been charged with promoting or organizing street racing. No equipment counts are attributed to either. It is worth pausing on what a promoting-or-organizing count against a passenger implies as a legal theory: the offense in Georgia law that carries that name turns on knowingly promoting or organizing, not on driving. The record compiled for this page does not state the factual basis alleged against either man, and this page does not supply one.

Ruben Tejada Arevalo. Charged, per WSB-TV, with promoting or organizing drag racing, reckless stunt driving, felony fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer, and illegal window tint. Note that his racing-promotion count is worded drag racing where the other three are worded street racing, and that his is the only felony count in the story. His charges are not the same charges, and his arrest is not described as part of the same round.

No other person is named on this page. Nobody here is described as a gang member, as a repeat offender, or as having any prior record. Nothing in the record compiled for this page supports any of those descriptions, and inventing one would be a defamation risk dressed up as color.

The date nobody has fixed

The arrest story gives no calendar date for the takeover. It describes an event and announces arrests connected to it, and never says which day it was.

The earlier WSB-TV story gets closer without closing the gap. Published Aug. 11, 2026, it opens by saying social media videos show one of Atlanta's busiest interstates taken over “this weekend.” Further down it reports: “We found more than a half-dozen videos posted on Instagram showing this happened around 2 a.m. Sunday.” It adds that the DeKalb County Police Department said it received one call just after 2 a.m. about reports of speeding and reckless driving, and that the agency said the road was clear by the time officers arrived.

So the tightest description available is a day name and a time, not a date. Around 2 a.m. Sunday, sourced to Instagram videos the station says it found, with a police call log entry just after 2 a.m. that corroborates the hour but not the weekend.

The arithmetic, clearly labeled as arithmetic: Aug. 12, 2026 was a Wednesday, which makes Aug. 11 a Tuesday, which puts the Sunday preceding that story's publication on Aug. 9, 2026. That calculation was performed here. It is not a date WSB-TV printed, and this page does not carry Aug. 9 in its fact card, its headline or its schema. It is offered so a reader can see exactly how far the record goes and where inference would begin.

Attention: a second Sunday sits in the middle of this story and the two are easy to confuse. Aug. 2, 2026 — the date of the Covington Highway and Wesley Chapel Road incident described in the Aug. 11 story — was also a Sunday. Two Sunday-morning takeovers a week apart, in the same county, with one name appearing in accounts of both.

Where this happened, and what I-285 is

I-285 is the perimeter freeway that encircles Atlanta, and locally it is simply called the Perimeter. It carries commuter, freight and airport traffic continuously, and it is the road metro Atlanta drivers name when they talk about the loop. The Glenwood Road exit sits on the eastern arc of that loop, inside DeKalb County.

Glenwood Road itself is a DeKalb County surface artery running east from the Atlanta city limits through neighborhoods that carry its name. The interstate exit and the road are different pieces of infrastructure, and the record compiled for this page places the event at the interstate near that exit — on the highway, with people described as standing along the exit ramps.

No coordinates appear in the record compiled for this page and none are published here. There is no map on this page and no photograph, because neither would tell a reader anything the sentence above does not, and a news photograph is not something this site republishes.

Where our sources differ

Both stories below are WSB-TV. That is unusual for this table, which normally sets two owners against each other. Here the disagreements sit between two stories from the same newsroom, published less than a day apart, and they are the most important thing on this page.

Nothing in that table is resolved here. Where the two stories point different directions, both directions are printed and attributed, and the reader is left holding the same uncertainty this desk is holding.

The camera investigators describe

One evidentiary detail appears in the arrest story and nowhere else in the record compiled for this page. WSB-TV reports that investigators said the three were stopped following the racing incident and were found with a high-definition camera consistent with equipment used to record videos in their car.

Read that carefully, because the wording is doing a lot of work. Consistent with is a comparison, not an identification. It says an item resembles a category of equipment. It does not say the camera recorded anything, that any footage was recovered from it, or that anything on it has been examined. The record compiled for this page contains no such finding, and this page does not imply one.

It is, however, the only fact in the story that reaches toward the promoting-or-organizing theory, since that offense in Georgia law turns on promotion and organization rather than on driving. Whether it does that work is a question for a court, not for this page.

What the DeKalb County Police Department said

The arrest story quotes the department, describing the passage as “a previous statement.” The same language appears in full in the Aug. 11 story as the department's complete written statement. It reads, in the department's own words:

“Street takeovers create an unacceptable danger to motorists, pedestrians, and the communities we serve. The DeKalb County Police Department continues to take a proactive approach to preventing this type of activity through targeted enforcement, intelligence gathering, and coordinated operational strategies.”

The fuller version published Aug. 11 goes on: “We investigate every report of street takeover activity and pursue appropriate criminal charges whenever offenders can be identified,” and describes proactive efforts that the department says have prevented several planned street takeover events before they could occur. The department adds that these events “are often organized quickly through social media and participants frequently disperse before officers arrive”, and says its personnel have disrupted numerous events and prevented others from occurring altogether.

That is an agency describing its own posture. It is not evidence about any named person, and this page does not treat it as any. It is included because a department's public account of how it approaches a category of case is part of the record a reader is entitled to see.

Which agency is which

Four bodies get confused in coverage of an interstate incident inside a county, and they are not interchangeable.

The DeKalb County Police Department is the county police agency and is the agency named throughout the record compiled for this page. It made the arrests described and issued the statement quoted above.

The Georgia State Patrol is the state's uniformed highway patrol, part of the Department of Public Safety, and it does operate on Georgia interstates. It is not the agency here. WSB-TV reports that it reached out to the Georgia State Patrol and that the agency said DeKalb County police responded to the interstate takeover.

The Atlanta Police Department is a city agency with jurisdiction inside Atlanta's municipal limits. It appears nowhere in the record compiled for this page, and the fact that I-285 loops around Atlanta does not make an Atlanta agency responsible for what happens on it in DeKalb County.

The Georgia Department of Transportation builds and maintains the roadway. It is not a law enforcement agency, it does not arrest anyone, and it appears nowhere in the record compiled for this page.

A fifth body matters at the back end. The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office operates the county jail, which is a different function from the county police department that makes an arrest.

What Georgia's racing law requires the state to prove

O.C.G.A. section 40-6-186 is the racing statute, and it starts by defining its terms. It defines a drag race as operating two or more vehicles from a point side by side at accelerated speeds in a competitive attempt to outdistance each other, or operating one or more vehicles over a common selected course from the same point to the same point for the purpose of comparing the relative speeds or power of acceleration of the vehicles within a certain distance or time limit.

It defines racing separately as the use of one or more vehicles in an attempt to outgain, outdistance, or prevent another vehicle from passing, to arrive at a given destination ahead of another vehicle or vehicles, or to test the physical stamina or endurance of drivers over long-distance driving routes.

The prohibition is subsection (b). No person shall drive any vehicle on a highway in this state in any race, speed competition or contest, drag race or acceleration contest, test of physical endurance, exhibition of speed or acceleration, or for the purpose of making a speed record — and no person shall in any manner participate in any such race, competition of speed, contest of speed, or test or exhibition of speed. A person convicted of violating subsection (b) is guilty of a misdemeanor.

What that means as a matter of proof is that the state has to establish a purpose, not just a speed. Competition, comparison, an attempt to outdistance, an exhibition. Fast driving alone is a different offense. This is the general Georgia rule and is not a statement about any person named on this page.

Promoting or organizing: a separate offense

The charge name that appears against three of the four people here is a promotion offense, and Georgia gives it its own Code section. O.C.G.A. section 16-11-43.1 provides that any person who knowingly promotes or organizes an exhibition of illegal drag racing, in violation of Code Section 40-6-186, or of laying drags, in violation of Code Section 40-6-251, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature.

Three words carry the weight: knowingly, promotes, organizes. The offense is aimed at the person who sets the thing up or advertises it, not at the person behind the wheel — which is why a promotion count can be brought against someone who was not driving.

The record compiled for this page does not state which Code section any charge here was brought under. Police charge sheets use working names, and a working name is not a citation. This page therefore describes the Georgia offense that carries the matching name and stops there, rather than asserting a section number nobody published.

Reckless stunt driving under Georgia law

O.C.G.A. section 40-6-390.1 is Georgia's reckless stunt driving statute, and it and the charge carrying that name appears in this story only against Ruben Tejada Arevalo. It reaches a person who operates a vehicle while drag racing, in violation of Code Section 40-6-186, or laying drags, in violation of Code Section 40-6-251, in reckless disregard for the safety of persons on a highway or upon private property without express authorization from the owner.

Its penalties escalate on a ten-year lookback. A first conviction within ten years carries a fine of at least $300 and no more than $750 and imprisonment of not fewer than ten days nor more than six months. A second within ten years carries a fine of at least $600 and not more than $1,000 and 90 days to 12 months. A third within ten years carries a fine of at least $1,000 and not more than $5,000 and 120 days to 12 months. Those tiers are misdemeanors of a high and aggravated nature. A fourth or subsequent conviction becomes a felony.

That escalation structure is general background. Nothing in the record compiled for this page describes a prior conviction for anyone named here, and this page does not suggest that any tier beyond the first is in play for anyone.

Felony fleeing or eluding: what elevates it

O.C.G.A. section 40-6-395 makes it unlawful for a driver willfully to fail or refuse to bring the vehicle to a stop, or otherwise to flee or attempt to elude a pursuing police vehicle or police officer, when given a visual or an audible signal to bring the vehicle to a stop.

The statute is unusually specific about the signal and the officer. The signal may be by hand, voice, emergency light, or siren. The officer giving it must be in uniform prominently displaying his or her badge of office, and the vehicle must be appropriately marked showing it to be an official police vehicle. Those are elements, not formalities, and they are litigated.

Ordinary violations are misdemeanors that escalate with repeat convictions. The offense is elevated where aggravating circumstances are present — including exceeding the posted speed limit by more than 20 miles per hour, striking a vehicle or a pedestrian, causing an accident, or leaving the state — and a felony conviction carries a substantially heavier fine range and a prison term measured in years rather than months.

The word felony in a charge list is the single most consequential word on a page like this one. One of the four people named here faces one felony count. The other three, on the charges reported, do not. Blurring that would misstate what three named people are actually accused of. Nothing in the record compiled for this page states which aggravating circumstance, if any, underlies that count, and none is asserted here.

Window tint and tires: the numbers in the code

Two of the counts in this story are equipment offenses, and they are worth stating precisely because they sound trivial and are frequently misquoted.

O.C.G.A. section 40-8-73.1 governs window tint. It makes it unlawful to operate a motor vehicle with material and glazing applied or affixed to the windshield or windows that reduces light transmission to less than 32 percent, plus or minus 3 percent, or increases light reflectance to more than 20 percent. The statute carries a substantial list of exemptions: adjustable sun visors, stickers in designated windshield corners, federal, state or local required stickers, rear windows on multipurpose passenger vehicles, school buses and public transportation, law enforcement vehicles, and a medical exemption supported by a physician's attestation. A violation of the operative subsections is a misdemeanor.

O.C.G.A. section 40-8-74 governs tires, and it is where the phrase “bald tires” comes from. The statute requires not less than 2/32 inch of tread measurable in all major grooves, with a 4/32 inch requirement on front tires of school buses and commercial vehicles. It requires tires to be free from any cuts, breaks, or snags on tread and sidewall deep enough to expose body cord, and free from bumps, bulges, or separations. It bars operating a vehicle on tires marked “not for highway use,” “for racing purposes only,” or “unsafe for highway use,” and bars retreaded or recapped tires on the front wheels of buses.

These are the general statutory rules. No tread measurement, no light-transmission reading and no decal record for any vehicle in this story appears in the record compiled for this page.

What a charge is NOT

A charge is not a conviction. It is a formal accusation resting on probable cause, a threshold deliberately set far below the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard a conviction requires. The two are not near each other.

A charge is not evidence. Nothing has been tested by cross-examination, no exhibit has been admitted, no judge has ruled on what may even be shown to a jury.

A charge is not a finding that an event occurred. It is one side's assertion of what it believes it can prove. The other side has not yet spoken; the record compiled for this page contains no statement from any of the four named here and does not indicate whether any of them has counsel.

A charge is not permanent. Counts are amended, reduced, consolidated, dead-docketed and dismissed constantly, most of it invisible because dismissals do not make news the way arrests do.

And a list of charges is not a description of an event. “Bald tires, illegal window tint, driving without valid decals” is a set of allegations about a car's condition. Read as a story, it becomes something no source wrote. That misreading is the most common way a reader ends up certain of something nobody reported.

Arrest, first appearance, grand jury

Georgia cases move through a sequence, and knowing it is the difference between reading a docket and guessing at one.

Arrest and booking come first. An arresting agency books the charges it believes it has. Those counts are the agency's, not a prosecutor's, and they are frequently not the counts a case ends up carrying.

First appearance follows. Georgia procedure calls for the accused to be brought before a judicial officer promptly — generally within 48 hours of a warrantless arrest, or 72 hours where a warrant issued. The accused is advised of the charges and of the right to counsel, and bond is addressed. It is not a trial and no guilt question is decided.

Then misdemeanors and felonies split. Misdemeanors in a county with a solicitor-general are prosecuted by that office by accusation, in state court, with no grand jury involved. Most of the counts described in this story are misdemeanor-grade offenses, which means most of this case, if it proceeds, would travel that route.

Felonies go to the district attorney, and unless the accused waives indictment, the case must be presented to a grand jury, which returns a true bill of indictment or a no bill. A grand jury hears only the state's presentation and decides whether the case goes forward. It decides nothing about guilt. A true bill is routinely misread as a verdict; it is not one.

Arraignment, motions and negotiation follow, and the overwhelming majority of cases end in a plea or a dismissal rather than a trial. None of these stages has been reported for anyone named here, and this page does not predict which one comes next.

Misdemeanor, high and aggravated, felony

Georgia sorts offenses by the punishment they carry, and this story contains all three tiers.

A misdemeanor is generally punishable by up to 12 months of confinement and a fine. Plain racing under O.C.G.A. section 40-6-186, window tint under section 40-8-73.1 and the tire provisions of section 40-8-74 sit at this level.

A misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature remains a misdemeanor, still capped at 12 months, but exposes a defendant to a larger maximum fine and to less generous credit while serving. Promoting or organizing under section 16-11-43.1 and the first three tiers of reckless stunt driving under section 40-6-390.1 carry this classification.

A felony is an offense punishable by more than 12 months, and it costs firearm rights, costs the vote while a sentence is being served, and triggers licensing and employment consequences that misdemeanors generally do not. One count in this story — felony fleeing or attempting to elude, against one person — is at that level.

How to get the incident report

The report belongs to the agency, not to a news outlet. This site cannot obtain a record for a reader, and it has not obtained one here.

• Start with the DeKalb County Police Department. Its central records function holds incident and arrest reports for the county police agency. Take contact details from the department's own site rather than from an aggregator.
• Jail and booking records are a separate custodian. Those sit with the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, which operates the jail.
• Court filings are a third custodian. Once a prosecution is filed, the accusation or indictment and the docket sit with the clerk of court, not with a police agency.
• Cite the Act and give identifiers. Requests are made under the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. section 50-18-70 and the sections following it. Give the name, the approximate date, and ask for the incident or arrest report specifically.
• Know the clock. Under O.C.G.A. section 50-18-71, an agency must produce records responsive to a request within a reasonable amount of time not to exceed three business days. Where responsive records exist but cannot be produced in that window, the agency must give the requester a description of such records and a timeline for when they will be available.
• Know what a refusal has to contain. Under subsection (d) of that section, an agency that withholds all or part of a record must notify the requester of the specific legal authority for the exemption by Code section, subsection, and paragraph. A refusal that names no authority is not a compliant refusal.
• Know the fees. Copying is capped at 10 cents per page for letter or legal size documents; for other documents the charge is the actual cost of producing the copy. No charge may be made for the first quarter hour of search, retrieval and redaction time.
• Expect redaction, and expect the open-investigation refusal. Ask for the incident or arrest report rather than the investigative file. An agency will ordinarily withhold investigative material while a prosecution is pending, and the narrative you do receive may arrive with portions blacked out.

Who investigates this in DeKalb County

The DeKalb County Police Department investigates street racing and street takeover reports in unincorporated DeKalb and in the county's police jurisdiction, and it is the agency that made the arrests described here. In its own statement it says it investigates every report of street takeover activity and pursues appropriate criminal charges whenever offenders can be identified.

DeKalb County also contains several cities with their own police departments, and an incident's location determines which agency responds. Nothing in the record compiled for this page attributes any part of this case to a municipal department.

Prosecution splits by offense level. Misdemeanors in Georgia are generally handled by a county solicitor-general in state court; felonies go to the district attorney in superior court. No prosecutor, office or individual is named anywhere in the record compiled for this page, and none is named here.

What victim resources exist in Georgia

No injured person appears anywhere in the record compiled for this page. This section is general Georgia information, and it is included because interstate incidents produce injured people often enough that a reader arriving here may be one.

Georgia operates a crime victims compensation program administered by the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. It can help with expenses such as medical treatment, counseling, lost wages and funeral costs where a person is injured by a qualifying crime and the loss is not covered by another source. It is a payer of last resort, not a first stop.

Two things are widely misunderstood, and getting them wrong keeps people from applying. First, an arrest and a prosecution are not eligibility requirements. A claim does not depend on anyone being caught, charged or convicted. Second, cooperation with law enforcement is addressed by O.C.G.A. section 17-15-8, which provides that the board, upon finding that a claimant or award recipient has not fully cooperated with all law enforcement agencies, may deny, reduce, or withdraw an award. That is a discretionary ground, not an automatic bar, and it is not a reason to assume you cannot apply.

Georgia also funds victim-witness assistance through prosecutors' offices, which help with notifications, court accompaniment and applications. Separately, injured motorists deal with insurers, and an insurer's adjuster works for the insurer. Nothing on this page is legal advice and this site is not a law firm.

This is a single-source story

One newsroom stands behind this account: WSB-TV, a Cox Media Group station, across two stories. A search was run for a second independently owned newsroom carrying these arrests — Atlanta News First, FOX 5 Atlanta and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution among the outlets looked for — and no second owner was located for the record compiled for this page.

That statement is scoped deliberately. It says what this desk found, not what any newsroom did or did not publish. Another outlet may well have covered it somewhere this search did not reach.

Syndication is not corroboration. A version of the WSB-TV arrest story circulates on at least one large aggregation platform. That is the same Cox Media Group copy on a second address. Counting it as a second source would be inventing corroboration, which is the one error this site treats as unrecoverable.

What single-sourcing changes for a reader: every fact on this page traces to one newsroom's reporting of one police agency's account. There is no second desk that checked the spelling of a name, the arithmetic of an age, or which incident an arrest belonged to. The mismatches documented above are exactly the kind of thing a second independent account normally resolves, and here there is not one.

What we don't know yet

Nothing above is filled in by inference. Where a fact is missing, this page says so and scopes that statement to the record compiled for it. This page does not revisit itself as the case develops.

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Frequently asked questions

What happened on I-285 near the Glenwood Road exit?
WSB-TV reports that video posted to YouTube shows racers turning I-285 into a racetrack near the Glenwood Road exit, and that the video also shows drivers doing burnouts, donuts, and racing down I-285. The station describes moving cars just inches away from people with their phones out, and others standing along the exit ramps. That is a description of a video, not a finding about any named person. Nobody named on this page is identified anywhere in the record compiled for it as a person appearing in that video.

How many people have been arrested?
That depends on which line of the story you read, and this page does not pick one. The WSB-TV headline says three more were arrested. The body of the same story names four people: Naysean Lee, Tariq Lumley, Tymel Mabry and Ruben Tejada Arevalo. The three-count refers to the latest round of arrests. Arevalo is described as an earlier, separate arrest with a separate set of charges. Both numbers are correct about different things, which is exactly why publishing only one of them would mislead a reader.

Who has been named?
Four people. Naysean Lee, 24, described by WSB-TV as one of the drivers. Tariq Lumley, 23, and Tymel Mabry, 27, described by WSB-TV as two of Lee's passengers. And Ruben Tejada Arevalo, named in the same story as an earlier arrest. The Aug. 12 WSB-TV story publishes no age for Arevalo. All four are accused, not convicted, and all four are presumed innocent.

What is each person charged with?
According to WSB-TV, DeKalb County police charged Naysean Lee with promoting or organizing street racing, bald tires, illegal window tint, and driving without valid decals. Tariq Lumley and Tymel Mabry are each charged with promoting or organizing street racing. Ruben Tejada Arevalo is charged with promoting or organizing drag racing, reckless stunt driving, felony fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer, and illegal window tint. Every one of those is an accusation.

Has anyone been convicted?
No. Nothing in the record compiled for this page describes a plea, a hearing outcome, a trial or a sentence for any of the four. An arrest is the start of a legal process, not a result. A prosecutor is free to add counts, reduce them, consolidate them or decline them entirely, and none of that has happened in anything cited here.

What date did the takeover on I-285 actually happen?
No calendar date for it appears in the WSB-TV story announcing the arrests. An earlier WSB-TV story, published Aug. 11, 2026, says the station found more than a half-dozen videos posted on Instagram showing this happened around 2 a.m. Sunday, and that the DeKalb County Police Department said it received one call just after 2 a.m. about reports of speeding and reckless driving. The Sunday before that Aug. 11 publication date falls on Aug. 9, 2026. That last sentence is calendar arithmetic performed here, not a date printed by WSB-TV, and this page does not present Aug. 9 as a reported fact.

Was anyone hurt?
No injury and no death appears anywhere in the record compiled for this page. The charges described are traffic and racing-promotion offenses. In the earlier WSB-TV story, a resident named Monte Cole is quoted answering a question about whether someone could have gotten hurt: “Oh, definitely. More than hurt. Permanently hurt.” That is a resident's opinion about risk, published by WSB-TV. It is not a report that anybody was injured.

Which agency is handling this?
The DeKalb County Police Department. WSB-TV reports that it reached out to the Georgia State Patrol and that the agency said DeKalb County police responded to the interstate takeover. Those are two different agencies and this page does not merge them. The Atlanta Police Department and the Georgia Department of Transportation are also distinct bodies and neither appears in the record compiled for this page in connection with these arrests.

What does Georgia's racing law actually require the state to prove?
O.C.G.A. section 40-6-186 defines the terms and sets the prohibition. It defines a drag race as operating two or more vehicles from a point side by side at accelerated speeds in a competitive attempt to outdistance each other, or operating one or more vehicles over a common selected course from the same point to the same point to compare relative speed or power of acceleration within a certain distance or time limit. It defines racing as using one or more vehicles in an attempt to outgain, outdistance, or prevent another vehicle from passing, to arrive at a given destination ahead of another vehicle, or to test the physical stamina or endurance of drivers over long-distance driving routes. Subsection (b) bars driving on a highway in any race, speed competition or contest, drag race or acceleration contest, test of physical endurance, exhibition of speed or acceleration, or for the purpose of making a speed record, and bars participating in one in any manner. A conviction under subsection (b) is a misdemeanor. This is the general Georgia rule, not a statement about any person named here.

What does “promoting or organizing” mean in Georgia law?
Georgia has a separate offense for it. O.C.G.A. section 16-11-43.1 provides that any person who knowingly promotes or organizes an exhibition of illegal drag racing, in violation of Code Section 40-6-186, or of laying drags, in violation of Code Section 40-6-251, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature. The operative words are knowingly, promotes and organizes. The record compiled for this page does not state which Code section the charges against any person named here were brought under, and this page does not assert one.

What is reckless stunt driving in Georgia?
O.C.G.A. section 40-6-390.1 covers it. It reaches a person who operates a vehicle while drag racing, in violation of Code Section 40-6-186, or laying drags, in violation of Code Section 40-6-251, in reckless disregard for the safety of persons on a highway or upon private property without express authorization. A first conviction within ten years carries a fine of at least $300 and no more than $750 and imprisonment of not fewer than ten days nor more than six months. A second within ten years carries a fine of at least $600 and not more than $1,000 and 90 days to 12 months. A third within ten years carries a fine of at least $1,000 and not more than $5,000 and 120 days to 12 months. Those three tiers are misdemeanors of a high and aggravated nature; a fourth or subsequent conviction is a felony. That is general background.

When is fleeing or eluding a felony in Georgia?
O.C.G.A. section 40-6-395 makes it unlawful for a driver willfully to fail or refuse to bring the vehicle to a stop, or otherwise to flee or attempt to elude a pursuing police vehicle or police officer, when given a visual or audible signal to stop. The statute specifies that the signal may be by hand, voice, emergency light, or siren, that the officer must be in uniform prominently displaying a badge of office, and that the vehicle must be appropriately marked as an official police vehicle. Ordinary violations are misdemeanors with escalating penalties, and the offense is elevated where aggravating circumstances are present, including exceeding the posted speed limit by more than 20 miles per hour, striking a vehicle or a pedestrian, causing an accident, or leaving the state. This page does not state which of those circumstances, if any, is alleged in any case here.

What are Georgia's window tint and tire rules?
O.C.G.A. section 40-8-73.1 governs material and glazing applied to a windshield or window. Its central figure is a limit on reducing light transmission through the windshield or window to less than 32 percent, plus or minus 3 percent, and on increasing light reflectance to more than 20 percent. It carries a list of exemptions covering sun visors, required stickers, certain rear windows on multipurpose passenger vehicles, buses and public transportation, law enforcement vehicles, and a medical exemption supported by a physician's attestation. A violation of the relevant subsections is a misdemeanor. O.C.G.A. section 40-8-74 governs tires. It requires not less than 2/32 inch of tread measurable in all major grooves, with a 4/32 inch front-tire figure for school buses and commercial vehicles, and requires tires to be free from cuts, breaks or snags on tread and sidewall deep enough to expose body cord, and free from bumps, bulges or separations. It also bars operating tires marked not for highway use, for racing purposes only, or unsafe for highway use.

What is a criminal charge NOT?
A charge is not a conviction, not evidence, and not a finding that anything happened. It is a formal accusation supported by an officer's or a prosecutor's assertion of probable cause, which is a low threshold deliberately set well below the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard a conviction requires. A charge is not a statement that the person did it. It is not a court's conclusion. It is not permanent: charges are routinely amended, reduced, consolidated, dead-docketed or dismissed before anyone stands in front of a jury. And a list of charges is not a description of an event. Reading a charge sheet as a narrative of what occurred is the single most common way a reader ends up believing something no source ever established.

How does a Georgia case move from arrest to first appearance to grand jury?
An arrest is followed by booking. Georgia procedure then calls for a first appearance before a judicial officer, generally within 48 hours of a warrantless arrest or 72 hours where a warrant issued, at which the accused is advised of the charges and of the right to counsel and bond is addressed. Misdemeanors and felonies then diverge. In a county with a solicitor-general, state-court misdemeanors are prosecuted by that office on an accusation and no grand jury is required. Felonies go to the district attorney and, unless the accused waives indictment, must be presented to a grand jury, which returns either a true bill of indictment or a no bill. A grand jury decides only whether the case proceeds, not whether anyone is guilty. Arraignment, motions, negotiation and, in the small fraction of cases that reach it, trial follow. Most cases resolve without a trial.

How do I get a copy of the incident report?
Incident and arrest reports are public records held by the agency that made the report, not by a news outlet. Here that is the DeKalb County Police Department, through its central records function; jail and booking records sit with the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, and once a prosecution is filed the accusation or indictment and the docket sit with the clerk of court. Requests are made under the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. section 50-18-70 and the sections following it. Under O.C.G.A. section 50-18-71, an agency must produce records responsive to a request within a reasonable amount of time not to exceed three business days, and where responsive records exist but are not available within that period the agency must provide a description of such records and a timeline for when they will be available. Under subsection (d), an agency withholding all or part of a record must notify the requester of the specific legal authority for the exemption by Code section, subsection, and paragraph. Copying is capped at 10 cents per page for letter or legal size documents, and no charge may be made for the first quarter hour of search and retrieval time. Ask for the incident or arrest report by name and date rather than for the investigative file, which an agency will ordinarily withhold while a case is open.