A vehicle launching fireworks from the passenger window on I-95 sparked the attention of a St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office Air Unit during a July 4 patrol flight.
In a video posted to social media on July 13, multiple fireworks are seen being fired from a southbound vehicle pulling a boat and landing in the median and northbound traffic lanes of I-95. When a sheriff’s deputy pulled the vehicle over, the occupants denied shooting the fireworks.
“No dude, not us,” a voice inside the car is heard in response to a deputy’s question during the traffic stop caught on body-worn camera footage.
The deputy then pointed to a helicopter that had been following the vehicle for 10 miles, capturing everything on video.
“You’re going to stick with that story? Like let’s be real, it’s on recording,” the sheriff’s deputy says.
A passenger in the vehicle was arrested and charged with shooting a deadly missile from a moving vehicle, the sheriff’s office wrote in the social media post.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Passenger arrested after helicopter records I-95 fireworks incident
Reporting by Gary T. Mills, Jacksonville Florida Times-Union / Florida Times-Union
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By Gary T. Mills, Jacksonville Florida Times-Union | USA TODAY Network
