{"id":116805,"date":"2026-01-13T20:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116805\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:29:08","slug":"firework-complaints-in-jacksonville-lead-to-culprit-being-caught-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116805\/","title":{"rendered":"Firework complaints in Jacksonville lead to culprit being caught, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WCIA) \u2014 Complaints of fireworks exploding in Jacksonville over the last few weeks led to the discovery of one culprit on Monday, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1282213923941824&amp;set=a.339233948239831\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a news release;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a news release<\/a>, Jacksonville Police officials said people have posted on social media over the last three weeks referencing loud booms in the area. Officers were called to the reported locations several times but were unable to find anything that may have been causing the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/jacksonville-police-issue-68-speeding-181407276.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jacksonville Police issue 68 speeding tickets during December enforcement campaaign;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Jacksonville Police issue 68 speeding tickets during December enforcement campaaign <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jacksonville Police received another report of a boom at 11:15 p.m. on Monday, officials said. When they responded, officers learned information that indicated someone was throwing fireworks out of a moving vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOfficers continued their investigation and discovered a juvenile, who admitted to shooting off fireworks from his vehicle, was still in possession of fireworks,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The juvenile was issued a ticket for violating city ordinance. The remaining fireworks the juvenile had were confiscated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcia.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WCIA.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WCIA.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WCIA) \u2014 Complaints of fireworks exploding in Jacksonville over the last few weeks led to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,39132],"class_list":["post-116805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-police-officials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}