Deputies Found Weapons Cache During Domestic Violence Call

Orange County sheriff’s investigators responding to a domestic violence report found 40 weapons, most of them rifles, grenades and “precursors to explosives” in a Laguna Niguel home Monday.

Deputies went to the home at 25 Fairlane Road about 12:40 a.m. to handle a domestic violence report, Orange County sheriff’s Lt. Jeff Hallock said.

Juan Jesus Martinez, 56, was booked on suspicion of domestic violence and possession of substances with intent to create a destructive/explosive device, Hallock said. Martinez was being held on $500,000 bail.

While they were at the home, Hallock said, investigators found the guns as well as grenades and military ordnance devices. The ordnance and grenades were later found to be inert, the lieutenant said.

Deputies also found substances and chemicals, which Hallock described as “precursors to explosives.”

--City News Service

PHOTO Booking photo for Juan Jesus Martinez. Courtesy the orange County Sheriff’s Department.