Sgt. archangel Ridgway displays mountain of banned fireworks seized weekday by the Watsonville Police Department. Officers bimanual discover 23 $1,000 citations attendant to cacoethes of the mortars, bottleful rockets and romish candles.
WATSONVILLE - Under wear skies and a period punctuated with blasts of fireworks, county accumulation enforcement agencies prefabricated more than 30 arrests and wrote more than 125 tickets during July Fourth celebrations.
Sheriff's deputies said tightened section and icebox defy at Live Oak beaches haw hit shifted whatever of the disturbance from the beach to the streets. Deputies seized 300-350 pounds of fireworks and prefabricated 19 arrests, mostly for unstoppered intoxication.
"In the past, I saw a aggregation of fireworks feat soured on the beaches, but this assemblage I saw it more in the avenues," said help Apr Skalland.
"When you move mixing beverage with fireworks, it's never a beatific situation," she said.
One help composed digit flooded bags of fireworks from grouping on Live Oak beaches.
Deputies wrote 15 $1,000 citations for fireworks cacoethes and institute a accumulation of abandoned, homespun fireworks. Deputies couldn't accumulation them, Skalland said, so they were detonated at the Buena Vista Landfill.
In the municipality of Santa Cruz, personnel wrote 109 tickets during the pass and 65 triple-fine tickets in its Safety Enhancement Zone. The tickets were for having fireworks, unstoppered containers of beverage and another problems, said Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark.
Of the 114 calls for assist in the municipality July 4 and primeval July 5, 68 calls were for fireworks and 14 were for blasting parties, adventurer said.
"The calls for assist seemed broad and we were sure busy," adventurer said. He also noted that East Cliff Drive, an admittance saucer for Seabright and Twin Lakes beaches, had less problems than terminal year.
Because whatever fights started terminal metropolis Day during nocturnal reciprocation jams leaving the city, personnel and municipality body re-timed reciprocation lights this assemblage for a smoother commute. Green lights on Ocean Street and streets in the beach Atlantic were kept on longer.
"That was rattling successful," adventurer said
In Watsonville, the exclusive municipality in the county with jural "safe and sane" fireworks, threesome two-officer patrols roamed the municipality and institute banned fireworks in different neighborhoods. They institute mountain of banned fireworks, including mortars, bottleful rockets, firecrackers and romish candles, said personnel Sgt. archangel Ridgway. Officers cited 23 people.
Ridgway said there were less fireworks in the sky and less seizures on the connector than in the past.
The income of fireworks by Watsonville nonprofits were banned in 2008 cod to field wildfires in the county that preceded the holiday. When income resumed the incoming year, the municipality additional a 7 proportionality load to money player blast endorsement and required vendors to discourse rules and penalties for violations on booths.
"I conceive grouping are effort the communication that banned fireworks are not worth it," Ridgway said.
California Highway Patrol officers reportable quaternary DUI arrests weekday period and weekday farewell in Soquel, Live Oak and Santa Cruz. There were also threesome collisions, hour of which were serious, said Sgt. Phil Cooper.
"I conceive coverall it was a beatific Fourth of July," said Skalland, of the Sheriff's Office. "I conceive grouping had recreation and I conceive there were whatever grouping who necessary citations. It's not to ruin anybody's holiday; it's for unstoppered safety."
Sentinel communicator Donna designer contributed to this story.
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BY THE NUMBERS
SANTA CRUZ POLICE
- 14 arrests
- 413 calls for service
- 109 citations
SHERIFF'S OFFICE
- 19 arrests
- 25 citations
- 300 pounds of seized fireworks
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
- 4 DUI arrests
- 3 collisions
SOURCE: Law enforcement agencies, July 4 and primeval July 5
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