Roughly “400 unaccompanied youth” set off fireworks at the annual MadTree Red, White & Blue Ash celebration, leading to several arrests, the Blue Ash Police Department said.
The large group of juveniles set off fireworks numerous times throughout the party, mostly around their own group, police said. Police said they were “intentionally causing panic.”
While police have not specified exactly how many juveniles were taken into custody, they did say one was charged with assault on a police officer after a Blue Ash Police officer was burned in the leg by one of the fireworks. That officer was treated and released from the hospital, police said…