was this place being guarded?
the large theft from Cherry Enginering, a company owned by Chris Cherry, for decades the senior explosives scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. Also, 2,500 detonators were missing from a storage explosive container, or magazine, in the name of Cherry Engineering.
Sounds like there were thefts both from Cherry Engineering's own premises, and from some storage facility where Cherry's explosives were among the items stored.