Investigators executed a search warrant on a boat in Marina del Rey as they continue their probe into the deaths of three bomb technicians who were killed when ordnance collected in Santa Monica exploded at a sheriff’s training center on Friday.
It is not clear what, if anything, was found on the boat in the 13900 block of Marquesas Way. But investigators say they are following leads to determine the origin of the grenades that were discovered inside a Santa Monica apartment complex storage area last week and transported to East L.A., where the explosion occurred Friday morning.
The explosives, described by law enforcement sources as military-grade hand grenades and fuses, were taken from the complex in the 800 block of Bay Street on Thursday night and moved to the Biscailuz Center Training Academy, photographed and stored. Officials believed at least some of the grenades were inert and that the technicians had taken an X-ray or scan of some of the ordnance and cut into them before one detonated.
It’s not clear how those explosives ended up inside the garage storage unit in the first place, who left them there or what caused one to detonate as the technicians moved it. Those are just a few of the questions officials are trying to answer as they piece together exactly what led to the deaths.
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