(Michigan City, IN) - A junk vehicle crackdown is in the works in Michigan City.

 

 

 

Assistant Police Chief Kyle Shiparski during the city’s Board of Public Works & Safety meeting on Monday said the focus will be on ticketing vehicles with expired license plates.

 

Vehicles without current plates are considered junk and can be towed, eventually, if the plates are not renewed.  He said the public will be notified before the crackdown begins.

 

“We’ll kind of do a bigger, maybe social media post, just so that people have some awareness on that,” he said.

 

Resident Tommy Kulavik cited problems with junk vehicles in his neighborhood on Ohio St. and elsewhere in the city.

 

“This is Michigan City, Indiana.  It is not Gary, Indiana.  Come on,”

 

Board member Gene Simmons, a former police chief in the city, expressed support for the crackdown hoping it reduces what he believes has become a culture for some people to keep vehicles that are not running.

 

"I think we're teetering on that," he said. 

 

No date for beginning the crackdown was given.