Does anyone in Youngstown have a driver's license?

YOUNGSTOWN — Knowing the city is wall-to-wall police hunting down traffic violators hasn’t stopped die-hard drivers without a valid license from ignoring rules of the road.

City police implementing the mayor’s zero-tolerance approach to crime fighting through traffic stops — Special Interdiction Patrol — came across roughly a dozen drivers with suspended licenses Thursday. A few were wanted on warrants and some had drugs in their cars.

Reasons for the stops included cruising through traffic lights, failing to signal a turn, no front plate, no illuminated rear plate, one headlight, expired plates and so forth.

Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers have joined in the traffic interdiction by focusing on U.S. and state routes in the city in an effort to reduce fatalities.