Laguna Niguel Man with Stash of Rifles and Grenades Pleads Guilty in Domestic Violence Case

A 56-year-old man arrested as Orange County sheriff’s investigators found a stash of weapons as they responded to a domestic violence report pleaded guilty to possession of a destructive device and was sentenced today to 200 hours of community service.

Juan Jesus Martinez was also sentenced to a day in jail and to participate in a treatment program for domestic violence and placed on three years of formal probation.

Martinez pleaded guilty to damaging a wireless device to prevent a call to law enforcement and battery, both misdemeanors. The count of possession of a destructive device is a felony.

Multiple other felonies were dropped in the plea deal.

Deputies responding to the report of domestic violence on Sept. 2 found 40 weapons, most of them rifles, grenades and “precursors to explosives” in his Laguna Niguel home, according to Orange County sheriff’s Lt. Jeff Hallock.

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