EPD Releases Statement On Unsupervised Juveniles At River Front Holiday Celebration.

These fireworks were confiscated from juveniles that were unattended by an adult at the city fireworks display on Riverside Drive. Most of these fireworks are explosive type fireworks. Some are bottle rockets that are uncontrollable. Our Officers confiscated several mortar rounds from one juvenile that did not even have the launching tube with them. If they were tossed they could have potentially severely injured one of our citizens or their small children. Possibly, as a result of these seizures, there was little to no trouble after the city firework show was over. These fireworks were turned over to the Hazardous Device Unit for disposal.