The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call of a man shooting off ‘big fireworks? at Mill Lake and Baldwin Roads on July 6.
According to an OCSD report, a deputy observed a 29-year-old Mill Lake Road man lighting off illegal fireworks from a mortar tube in the ground in his back yard. The man was told to stop and he told the deputy he did not have any fireworks left.
The man also told the deputy he was having 10 children over shortly for ‘fun and fireworks.? The man was cited for possession of illegal fireworks and setting them off.
The deputy confiscated a steel launching tube and two plastic ones, and found three bottle rocket pieces in the man’s yard.
Paper remains from the fireworks were also found on the driveway and in one of the steel tubes.