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BALTIMORE — After Baltimore’s New Year’s Eve fireworks celebration was canceled by strong winds, the city’s police commissioner hit the streets and collared a few revelers who he said fired illegal guns into the air.
Frederick H. Bealefeld III had planned to end the year supervising a fireworks display. Instead he spent the night on patrol in a violent section of west Baltimore. When he and an aide spotted two men firing shotguns in the air, the officers chased the suspects into a home, calling for backup.
Within minutes, the streets around the home were jammed with about 50 police cars, said Anthony Guglielmi, Bealefeld’s spokesman.
