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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Somewhere there is a lawyer licking his chops.
I’m confused by the sawing in half...
I guess I’m too old - Can’t you just unscrew and remove the triggering mechanism?
Such a waste. Cost/benefit analysis, anyone?
I have no idea.
This is about as smart as the campers in Utah who found an M79 grenade at the national guard range and decided to put it in the campfire to “see what would happen.”
Kabloowie is what happens.
training exercise
Now watch closely boys...
Mr Grenade is not your friend
I worked withe a dude who used to keep an inert grenade on his desk... Or that’s what he said... Who knows?
Maybe the only thing that saved us all was his retirement.
In basic training an instructor died because he thought a law rocket was inert. Blew up and sent many of my squad to the hospital as well.
The title of the article literally says they x-rayed it.
That's the scary part. The grenades were X-rayed and determined to be inert.
A special division of Police Squad.
Sorry. Too soon?
That is concentrated industrial strength stupidity right there!
Wow.
I’m confused (not surprisingly these days), they were “in a car” cutting the grenade in half???
man....I LOL after reading your comment.. !
Article lead in: Law enforcement source says deputies cut a grenade in half as part of a training exercise after they X-rayed it and thought it was inert.
Rule #1: The gun is ALWAYS loaded.
Rule #2: The grenade could be perfectly safe under a variety of circumstances, and it’s best not to worry too much about these things.
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