LAPD Station Evacuated after Couple Drops Off Military Ordnances
What to know
- A couple brought a box containing military ordnance to the LAPD station in Pacoima on Saturday, prompting an evacuation of the station and nearby homes.
- The couple had found the explosives while cleaning out a deceased relative’s home, and the bomb squad safely secured the devices.
- The incident follows a deadly explosion involving hand grenades that killed three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives.
A couple brought military explosive devices into a Los Angeles Police Department station Saturday afternoon in an attempt to dispose of them, spurring officials to temporarily evacuate the Pacoima station and nearby homes.
The incident came less than two weeks after an explosion killed three Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives — the deadliest incident for the Sheriff's Department in more than 150 years. The three agency veterans who were killed were Dets. Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn.
On Saturday, according to the LAPD, two people came into the Pacoima station at 2:30 p.m. and said they had been cleaning out the home of a family member who recently died when they found what they believed were explosives.More on OFFICER.com
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- Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Dets. Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn were moving explosives at an East Los Angeles training facility when the blast happened, the agency's deadliest incident in over 160 years.
The department's bomb squad used a robot to take images of the plastic box the couple had brought, which had "several military ordnances inside."
After deeming them safe to transfer, the bomb squad moved them to a storage facility for the U.S. military to collect.
In the latest twist in the case in which the sheriff's detectives were killed, one of the grenades found before the explosion is missing, authorities said Friday.
Two hand grenades were discovered in a Santa Monica town home complex — one of them exploded with deadly results, and the other one "is unaccounted for at this time," Sheriff Robert Luna said.
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