Fireworks executive rips page from Boston bombing playbook to trace NYC terror suspect

FIRST ON FOX – When news broke in 2013 that bombs packed with fireworks powder had detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon and Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were being hunted, executives at Phantom Fireworks did not wait for a phone call.

They searched their own records.

The company ran the Tsarnaev brothers’ names through its internal database and discovered one of them had purchased fireworks at a New Hampshire store. The same process has since become routine when...