Pensioner finds 20 sticks of dynamite in the freezer: police clear residential area

Los Angeles (USA) – What a shock cleaning out the garage! A woman in Los Angeles just wanted to defrost an old freezer. But instead of ice cream and forgotten food, she suddenly discovered several sticks of dynamite. The discovery triggered a major police operation and the entire district had to be evacuated.

As CBS News first reported, the homeowner, who is in her 80s, found the explosive devices in a freezer in her garage. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) bomb squad then responded to the house in the Valley Glen neighborhood.

Husband may have brought dynamite

Several neighbors had to leave their houses as a precaution. According to the police There were a total of 20 sticks of hot dynamite in the freezer. The woman told officers she had no idea the explosives were there.

Particularly puzzling: the freezer was already there when the couple took over the house. It could have already been there at that point. However, according to CBS News, the woman suspected her now-deceased husband may have brought the dynamite from another home the couple owned in the desert. According to police, the homeowner’s husband died in 2014.

Police defuse dynamite

LAPD experts treated the discovery with extreme caution. The dynamite was neutralized on site. They would have Bomb defuser The dynamite was placed in diesel and thus stabilized, explains LAPD Captain Warner Castillo in the Los Angeles Times.

According to the police, one would have Explosion can have serious consequences. Castillo: “God forbid – with that amount of dynamite, people could have lost their lives or been seriously injured.” According to police, the case is currently not being treated as a criminal offense but is being investigated as a lost property. All residents were able to return to their homes hours later.