Two arrested after fireworks blast Police arrested...

Two arrested after fireworks blast

Police arrested two Orange County men who allegedly dropped a

firework from a freeway overpass on Sunday. Police saw the explosion

while driving back to Laguna Beach from an investigation in Lake

Forest.

Three police officers were traveling south on the San Diego

Freeway at the interchange with Laguna Canyon Road at about 12:30

a.m. when they saw a glowing object fall from an overpass.

“We saw something sparkling coming over the overpass and it

explodes, very loud and very bright,” Sgt. Darin Lenyi said.

The blast appeared to be more powerful than a standard firework.

Police drove up to the overpass and saw two men drive away in a

pickup truck. Police, who were in an unmarked car, followed the truck

from the San Diego Freeway to El Toro Road, and stopped the truck

near Leisure World. Explosives found in the truck were identified as

mortar-type fireworks by the Orange County Bomb Squad.

Both men, Amir Reza Yazdanshenas, 24, of Mission Viejo, and

Mustafa Kemal Qadiri, 22 of Trabuco Canyon, were arrested on

suspicion of detonating an explosive device. If the blast had been

closer to a car, the consequences could have been disastrous, police

said.

“There’s a good likelihood that it was so violent that it could

have caused someone to lose control of their vehicle very easily and

the results could have been devastating,” Lenyi said.

Men arrested on suspicion of taking pictures of youths

Two men were arrested in unrelated cases this past weekend at Main

Beach for allegedly taking unauthorized pictures of minors.

On Saturday, Darren Lloyd Dage, 38, of Lake Forest, was arrested

on suspicion of taking pictures with a concealed camera at about 5:45

p.m. after a witness reported he had a digital camera hidden in a

towel, police said. On Sunday, Kerry Donivon Porter, 34, of Irvine

was arrested after allegedly using a camcorder to videotape a

13-year-old girl.

Porter was caught by the girl’s father, Sgt. Darin Lenyi said. The

father demanded Porter’s tapes and a bystander called police.

Additional investigation at Porter’s residence uncovered pictures of

minors as young as 6-years-old.

Both Dage and Porter admitted they were taking pictures of

children for sexual arousal, Lenyi said.