A 19-year-old Sumner man facing 15 criminal charges related to his alleged connection to street racing across the greater Seattle area had his pretrial hearing continued Monday to Nov. 9.
The Kent City Attorney’s Office has charged Cash Fairman with three counts each of racing, reckless endangerment, third-degree malicious mischief and unlawful race attendance, two counts of disorderly conduct and one count of second-degree criminal trespass.
Fairman previously pleaded not guilty to all charges and is out on $12,500 bond. He waived his right to a speedy trial, giving prosecutors until February to bring the case to trial.
The charges stem from three incidents between July 2025 and April 2026. Kent police say Fairman organized illegal street racing throughout King County, including events in Auburn, Kent, Pacific and Seattle.
Court records detail police surveillance of King County street racing dating back to the summer of 2020, when investigators began to notice an increase in “swinging,” in which crowds of spectators “take over,” or deliberately block, an intersection and congregate around a drifting vehicle. Drivers “get active” and drift in circles — “doughnuts.”
A Kent police commander with experience in over 100 investigations into illegal street racing throughout the Puget Sound region said that he believes the practice meets Washington’s definition of a criminal street gang. Police have connected street racing events to gun violence, including shootings involving at least eight gunshot victims in 2023 alone.
The events are initially organized as “car meets” on social media, according to police. Organizers, participants and spectators congregate before moving through a sequence of 10 to 20 “spots” for illegal street racing, traveling to each new location after law enforcement responds and breaks up the group.
KING 5 obtained witness video and screen recordings of Instagram accounts connected to street racing in King County that were logged as evidence in the case against Fairman.
One of those videos depicts an incident from July 11, 2025, in which Pacific Mayor Vic Kave confronts an active takeover in daylight outside Pacific City Hall.
Police records detail an investigation into a series of alleged street takeovers that day, including one in which Kave called 911 to report a takeover in downtown Pacific.