MARINA DEL REY (CNS) – Federal, county and local law enforcement officers were continuing Wednesday to search a group of storage units in Marina del Rey for evidence related to the explosion that killed three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives in East Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Police Department officers, Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau investigators, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Arson and Explosives Division and personnel from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives served search warrants at group storage units the 4200 block of Via Marina around 3:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Using robots, law enforcement officers spent several hours painstakingly moving the robot towards the storage units.
During the hours-long operation, nearby residents were told to stay away from their doors and windows.
“It’s very scary and I don’t really know what’s going to come of it,” one resident who lives in a nearby apartment complex told Fox11. A second resident seemed impressed by the robot, saying he had only seen them “in movies.”
“Investigators are continuing to follow up on additional leads and evidence to determine the origins of the devices located on Thursday in Santa Monica,” according to a statement from the sheriff’s department.
A drone and a K-9 unit were also at the scene during the multi-agency operation.
It was not immediately known if any explosive devices were found. There were no evacuations.
The search for evidence was in connection to the fatal explosion that was reported at 7:25 a.m. Friday at the Biscailuz Regional Training Center in the 1000 block of North Eastern Avenue, southwest of the interchange of the San Bernardino (10) and Long Beach (710) freeways.
Killed in the blast were sheriff’s detectives Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn, all of whom worked for the department’s Arson Explosives Detail.
It is suspected the detectives were killed when ordnance collected a day earlier from a Santa Monica apartment building storage bin exploded in the training center’s parking lot, according to the sheriff’s department.
On Monday, law enforcement personnel from the same agencies served a search warrant in the 13900 block of Marquesas Way in Marina del Rey, searching a boat docked in the marina.
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