Posted on 07/21/2025 11:22:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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 Detail.
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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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I think it might have been in violation of Department policy.
Article did say they ha been X-Rayed at the scene.
Should have weighed them and compared against live weight AND empty weight.
I would think explosives professionals should have access to such weight data for common military ordinance since they periodically have to deal with discoveries of "souvenirs" found in Grandpa's attic.
Thats’ actually in the manual!!!
Sounds like they were booby trapped to explode on opening by a trip wire attached to the box lid.
Nice catch. I didn't notice that. And I actually read the article for once. Shows you what good that does.
My inner E-7 didn’t want to, but my inner E-4 said, “Gay if you don’t!”
C4 is hard to set off, but not impossible. Nothing is idiot proof. Only idiot resistant. The ingenuity of idiots knows no bounds.
I am confused, too. Where did you get that they were in a car?
“Experts”.
An “inert” grenade is a bit like an “loaded” gun.
At all.
If it were a training exercise they would be wearing bomb gear and it would be at the traing ground.
I actually knew one of the women involved. A neighbor of my sisterinlaw. And yes she is as dumb as a fence post. No one was killed, just some minor cuts and bruises. They had enough sense to be 50 feet away. Which isn’t much sense at all.
Or someone that could have disassembled it safely.
MY Condolences.
“””That’s the scary part. The grenades were X-rayed and determined to be inert. “”
I guess they were ert.
When the pin is pulled the grenade is no longer your friend.
After some energy intensive brain work, I have concluded that there might not be any other variety.
That is the usual approach.
Seems he didn't know how to interpret that image.
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