JUST ONE YEAR TO THE DAY AFTER HE WAS ARRESTED for selling illegal fireworks, Leon Sapp, 50, of Tonawanda, New York, was nailed again. A Buffalo police officer observed “Sapp the sap” selling fireworks from his car yesterday and called in uniformed police and a fire marshal to make an arrest.
Fire Marshal Edwin Ortiz recognized Sapp from last year’s incident where he was charged with selling firecrackers to a family whose 6-yr.-old boy set one off on a bed inside their house. The resulting fire spread to two neighboring houses and damaged a fourth home.
After stopping Sapp’s auto, they found six boxes of commercial fireworks in the back. Sapp asked them to let him go with a “warning,” which was denied. After getting permission to search his house, they went to Sapp’s home where they confiscated another 400 lbs. of fireworks. And they found something else, too.
WNLO-TV Ch. 23 tells the whole story in this video report:
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