A couple brought an explosive military apparatus to a Los Angeles police station on Saturday afternoon to try to get rid of the authorities to temporarily evacuate the Pacoima station and the neighboring houses.
The incident occurs less than two weeks after an explosion killed three detectives from the Sheriff of the County of Los Angeles – the deadliest incident in the Sheriff department in more than 150 years. Three agency veterans died in the incident: Det. Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn.
According to the LAPD, two people entered the Pacoima station at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon and said they were cleaning a family member who recently died when they thought they were explosives.
The department’s bomb team used a robot to take images of the plastic box that the couple had brought, which had “several military ammunition inside”.
After having tried them to transfer, the bomb team moved them to a storage installation so that the US military can collect.
In the last twist in the event that the sheriff’s detectives were killed, one of the grenades found before the explosion disappeared, the authorities announced on Friday.
Two hand grenades were discovered in a family complex in the city of Santa Monica – one of them exploded with fatal results, and the other “was not counted at that time,” said Sheriff Robert Luna.