{"id":10896,"date":"2022-06-16T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=10896"},"modified":"2022-06-16T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:42:12","slug":"illegal-fireworks-in-san-mateo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/illegal-fireworks-in-san-mateo\/","title":{"rendered":"San Mateo County Police work undercover to find illegal fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/explosivos-pirotecnia-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"illegal fireworks\" class=\"wp-image-10897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/explosivos-pirotecnia-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/explosivos-pirotecnia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/explosivos-pirotecnia-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/explosivos-pirotecnia-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/explosivos-pirotecnia-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/explosivos-pirotecnia-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/explosivos-pirotecnia-1068x712.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Police Department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smcgov.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Saint Matthew<\/a> Fireworks season began with a bust that secured illegal fireworks and explosives from an undercover operation, the department announced Wednesday.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police have received information about a fireworks vendor in San Mateo County, where they are illegal, and authorities are warning of fines of up to $10,000 and imprisonment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities then designed an operation to limit the sale and use of fireworks in the county. A police officer posed as someone interested in buying the devices from the suspect, later identified as Jos\u00e9 Maga\u00f1a Gonz\u00e1lez.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer met with Maga\u00f1a Gonz\u00e1lez in a parking lot in San Mateo on Saturday where he sold the officer five M-100s, illegally manufactured explosive devices, other firecrackers and marijuana.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the sale was completed, additional officers arrived on scene and arrested Maga\u00f1a Gonz\u00e1lez.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police searched Maga\u00f1a Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s vehicle and found a loaded, unserialized .40-caliber firearm, 13.4 ounces of marijuana, the psychedelic psilocybin, a scale, packaging materials and other fireworks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maga\u00f1a Gonz\u00e1lez was taken to the San Mateo County Jail and booked on suspicion of carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle, possession of a controlled substance while armed, possession of a controlled substance for sale, possession of marijuana for sale, sale of marijuana, unlawful possession of fireworks and possession of a destructive device.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police turned the M-100s over to the San Mateo County Sheriff&#039;s Office bomb squad for processing and testing of evidence.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You may be interested in: <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/fireworks-in-rwc-illegal\/\">Redwood City reminds that all fireworks in the city are illegal<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Departamento de Polic\u00eda de San Mateo comenz\u00f3 la temporada de fuegos artificiales con una redada, obteniendo explosivos y fuegos artificiales ilegales de una operaci\u00f3n encubierta, anunci\u00f3 el departamento este mi\u00e9rcoles.&nbsp;&nbsp; La polic\u00eda recibi\u00f3 informaci\u00f3n sobre un vendedor de fuegos artificiales en el condado de San Mateo, donde son ilegales, raz\u00f3n por las que las [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10899,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions\/10899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}