Smuggled firecrackers left in public spaces

The Public Security Police Force (PSP) reportedly discovered on July 28 a suspect in a case involving the detection of a large quantity of pyrotechnic materials in a public space, the PSP spokesperson Lam Keong informed in a jointed press conference held yesterday afternoon.
According to the report on July 21, a package with 53 boxes of firecrackers containing a total of 20.68 million firecracker pieces was found near the Bus stop of the Hac Sa Reservoir Park.
The police investigation led to the uncovering of a suspect, a 28-year old Macau resident that has confessed to the police to have bought more than 60 boxes of the explosives in Gongbei market for RMB10,000 between mid-December last year and mid-January this year.
The suspect affirmed also that the sales person at the shop where he acquired the firecrackers, helped to smuggle the explosives into Macau in six different deliveries all carried by an unknown Chinese man.
The explosives were then stored in a flat located at Rua do Tesouro in the Inner Harbor area.
The man was said to have the intention of selling the firecrackers to passers-by during the Chinese New Year, but in fact only sold about 10 of those over 60 boxes and, because they had been smuggled into the territory, he had no option to dispose of them in a legal way so he dumped them on the evening of July 20.
The case was already referred to the Public Prosecutions Office under the charge of prohibited weapon and explosives.
This was not the only case regarding the discovery of explosives in public areas as in an allegedly unrelated case another 41 boxes of similar pyrotechnic materials were found on the street in Rampa da Penha last Sunday.