A couple brought a military explosive device into a Los Angeles Police Department Saturday afternoon to try to dispose of it, prompting officials to temporarily evacuate Pacoma Station and nearby houses.
Less than two weeks after the blast killed three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives — the deadliest incident in the sheriff’s department in more than 150 years. Three institutional veterans died in the incident: dets. Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn.
According to LAPD, two people entered the Pacoima station at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and said they were cleaning up the home of a family member who recently died when he discovered that he 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.”
