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https://ktla.com/news/local-news/explosives-found-inside-santa-monica-apartment-buildings-storage-unit-possibly-tied-to-blast-that-killed-deputies/

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The explosives that detonated and killed three L.A. County Sheriff’s Department deputies may have been found in a storage unit at an apartment complex in Santa Monica, a law enforcement source tells KTLA. The source then reported that authorities initially thought the explosives, military-style grenades, were inert before they cut one open the next day as part of a training exercise.

The blast occurred last Friday morning at the Biscailuz Regional Training Center in East Los Angeles.

The three deputies, Detective Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Detective Victor Lemus and Detective William Osborn, were killed while moving “undetonated ordnance,” sources told KTLA on Friday. All three were assigned to the LASD Special Enforcement Bureau’s Arson Explosives

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A source told KTLA that the explosives found in the apartment’s storage unit on Thursday may be what killed the deputies on Friday. It was later reported by the same source that the explosives, two military-style grenades, were X-rayed at the scene and deemed inert on Thursday.

The grenades, according to the source, had been stolen by a member of the U.S. military during their training. The three deputies loaded them into their unit and took them back to East Los Angeles.

Per the law enforcement source, on the following day, the deputies cut one of the grenades in half as a training exercise in order to examine what was inside of it thinking it would not explode; however, that is when the device detonated.

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You don't call the bomb squad to disarm or detonate intertia.
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Cutting into an unknown grenade found the day before??

This reeks of incompetence ...
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Cutting into an unknown grenade found the day before??

This reeks of incompetence ...

Ya think??? :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:
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Unless I am mistaken, the fuses can be unscrewed from most any grenade. Once that is done, evidence of an explosive charge should be pretty easy to find (or the absence thereof). I don't think I'd guess with the downside present.
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