A couple brought military explosive devices into one of the Los Angeles Police Department Saturday afternoon to try to dispose of them, prompting officials to temporarily evacuate Pacoima station and nearby houses.
The incident happened less than two weeks after the explosion killed three Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives, the deadliest incident in more than 150 years of the sheriff’s department. The three institutional veterans killed were Dets. Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn.
According to LAPD, two people entered the Pacoima station at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday and said they were cleaning up the home of a family member who recently died when they discovered that they believed it was explosives.
The department’s bomb squad used a robot to take an image of the plastic box brought by the couple, which “had several military ordnances inside.”
After they thought they were safely transferred, the bomb squad moved them to a storage facility for US military to collect.
Authorities said Friday that one of a grenades was found before the explosion disappeared after the sheriff’s detective was killed.
Sheriff Robert Luna said two grenades were found in a family complex in Santa Monica, one of whom exploded with a fatal result and the other “uncertained yet.”
