High-profile Bay Area illegal fireworks busts expose multi-million dollar black market
SAN FRANCISCO - The bust was impressive.
Just over a week before the Fourth of July, authorities on the Peninsula uncovered a Bay-Area-wide illegal fireworks smuggling operation leading all the way back to China.
It was just one of several recent seizures by law enforcement around the region that have netted tens of thousands of pounds of fireworks and more than $1 million in cash. The efforts couldn’t have come soon enough as California’s parched landscape is primed for the next devastating wildfire.
But even with these impressive hauls of illegal fireworks, many authorities believe they’ve just scratched the surface of a multi-million dollar black market.
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Both teens injured by the shooting have since recovered, Mountain View police say
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Mountain View Police announced the arrest of a suspect in the drive-by shooting of two teens in downtown Mountain View in April. Photo by Michelle Le
A 23-year-old East Palo Alto man was arrested in connection with the shooting of two teenagers in Mountain View in April, according to a press release from the Mountain View Police Department on Thursday.
Police said Dasein Lauese was arrested without incident at a Valero gas station at 334 San Antonio Road on June 30, around 7 p.m., after police detectives received a warrant. A gun was found in Lauese s car and investigators are in the process of determining if it s the same weapon used in the April shooting, the press release said.