Baltimore County Light & Boom Mystery Solved Reporting: Derek Valcourt PIKESVILLE, Md. (WJZ) 53; Police have made an arrest in a Baltimore County mystery. Eyewitness News first brought you the exclusive investigation of a mystery bang and flash in Pikesville. Now, police say they have arrested a neighbor, Frederick Lee Mackler, for the disturbance.
Derek Valcourt reports police were able to use footage from a surveillance video camera and determine that the light was coming from a window in a condo complex.
Detectives believe they were made by someone discharging some type of firework or pyrotechnic device. When they searched Mackler's home, they found pyrotechnics, guns and drugs.
Police went to the complex, talked to neighbors and arrested Mackler.
Deafening blasts accompanied by blinding split-second flashes of light have been rattling residents of the Pikesville neighborhood for months.
"The bedroom actually lights up like day," says Elaine O'Mansky, who lives in the Stevenson Commons condominium building near Beth Tfiloh. "It's instantaneous and wakes us up out of a very deep sleep."
She isn't alone. Barbara Friedman is Homeowner's Association president for the area.
She was up late one night sweeping her back patio when she heard the boom.
"I hit the deck," Friedman explained. "It was so loud, I thought I was being shot. I literally hit the deck."
O'Mansky says she has heard the noise 25 times since September, always between midnight and dawn.
Utility workers found no electrical problems or gas leaks that could explain the noise and flashes.
Mackler's bail was set at a million dollars. He was charged with several CDS violations, possession of a concealed deadly weapon, possession of fireworks without a permit and reckless endangerment.
Stay with WJZ.COM for the latest on this developing story.
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What a rube!
Found with 'pyrotechnics, guns and drugs'.
If you go to the linked site above there is a streaming audio-video report that shows the video the surveilance cameras caught when this rube's pyrotechnics went off 27 times since Sept (last year) between midnight at 6 AM.
