Some will always slip through — and hopefully they don’t cause wildfires. But the police departments in San Jose and San Francisco are publicizing news of recent busts involving big caches of illegal fireworks.
San Francisco police say that Thursday night they pulled over an allegedly stolen U-Haul van being driven by 38-year-old Joe Jenkins of San Francisco. Inside they found “hundreds of illegal fireworks, including various rockets and barrel bombs,” and Jenkins has now been arrested on suspicion of multiple felonies, including receiving a stolen vehicle, driving or taking a vehicle without consent, illegal possession of explosives, and possession of a large number of fireworks.
The department says that Jenkins’s alleged fireworks haul included “especially dangerous examples, including ‘ground to sky’ fireworks and barrel bombs, which can cause serious bodily injuries and death to members of the public.”…