Police departments in San Jose and San Francisco have recently made significant busts involving illegal fireworks, which can pose grave public safety risks. In a notable incident, officers arrested Joe Jenkins for driving a stolen van filled with hundreds of illegal fireworks, including particularly hazardous types like barrel bombs. In San Jose, a larger bust uncovered 1,320 pounds of explosives in a storage unit, leading to the arrest of Javier Martinez, followed by another seizure of 730 pounds. These operations underscore the dangers of illegal fireworks, which yearly cause injuries and fires.
This large cache of fireworks could have caused untold destruction in our city, and every year, fireworks lead to serious injuries, fires, and other critical incidents that our officers routinely respond to.
Inside the allegedly stolen U-Haul van, police discovered hundreds of illegal fireworks, including especially dangerous examples like 'ground to sky' fireworks and barrel bombs, which pose serious risks.
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