{"id":362046,"date":"2026-07-05T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362046\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:40:09","slug":"dallas-police-seize-thousands-of-illegal-fireworks-on-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362046\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas police seize thousands of illegal fireworks on Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,800 pounds of illegal fireworks were confiscated on the Fourth of July as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-police\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas police<\/a> worked alongside the Dallas Fire-Rescue\u2019s arson division to stop the sale and use of illegal fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>Both departments recovered fireworks from a location in South Dallas around 5 p.m. Saturday, Dallas police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>DFR arson investigators and police determined fireworks were being sold out of a U-Haul and a van in the 3300 block of Elsie Faye\u00a0Heggins near the intersection of Second Avenue, police said. Authorities confiscated over 1,400 pounds of illegal fireworks that were taken to a secure location by DFR. Police said two citations were issued at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police said 400 pounds of illegal fireworks were seized at a separate, unrelated location at 8:17\u00a0p.m. in the 4400 block of Penelope Street. Officers issued a\u00a0citation for possession of fireworks at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the illegal sale and possession of fireworks can lead to hazardous fires, injuries and property damage.<\/p>\n<p>Police said during Fourth of July celebrations, officers\u00a0responded to 235 firework calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 1,800 pounds of illegal fireworks were confiscated on the Fourth of July as Dallas police worked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,87998,126537],"class_list":["post-362046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-fourth-of-july"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}