{"id":1073248,"date":"2026-07-07T03:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1073248\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:04:15","slug":"13-year-old-arrested-after-birmingham-pd-said-he-lit-firework-threw-it-toward-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1073248\/","title":{"rendered":"13-year-old arrested after Birmingham PD said he lit firework, threw it toward officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbrc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WBRC<\/a>) &#8211; The Birmingham Police Department has arrested a 13-year-old boy after they said he lit a firework on the Fourth of July and threw it in the direction of officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Police officers were in the area of 67th Street South and Joppa Avenue Saturday evening when the incident happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">After police investigated, they said the suspect was identified. On Monday, July 6, the 13-year-old boy was found and taken into custody on charges of reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">No officers were injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The boy has not been identified by police since he is a juvenile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Authorities with Birmingham PD added that fireworks are illegal in the city limits of Birmingham and the reckless use of them can pose a significant risk of injury and can cause fires or property damage, especially in densely populated areas like apartment communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Birmingham PD said they want to remind the public that reckless behavior involving fireworks will not be tolerated and anyone who endangered the safety of others would be held accountable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Get news alerts in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wbrc-fox6-news\/id449660326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple App Store<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.raycom.wbrc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Store<\/a> or subscribe to our email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBRC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) &#8211; The Birmingham Police Department has arrested a 13-year-old boy after they said he lit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1073249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[294186,294185,6304,855,294183,14293,53179,748,290682,393,294188,35977,92861,4884,25781,276068,294184,276889,294187,39287,12,16,15,39286],"class_list":["post-1073248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-13-year-old","tag-67th-street-south","tag-alabama","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-pd","tag-birmingham-police","tag-birmingham-police-department","tag-britain","tag-central-alabama","tag-england","tag-firework","tag-fireworks","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-great-britain","tag-investigation","tag-jefferson-county","tag-joppa-avenue","tag-juvenile","tag-lit-firework-and-threw-it-at-police","tag-myfoxal","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wbrc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116876481488465712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}