Crime & Safety
Sheriff's Captain: Take Grenades Seriously
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department urged residents Monday to report suspicious devices to authorities after inert grenades were recently found in Monrovia and elsewhere.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - People should take devices that look like grenades and other explosives seriously because sometimes they are exactly what they look like, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department captain said today.
If you see something, don't touch it, but instead call the bomb squad, which is good at dealing with the risk, said Capt. Mike Parker of the Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau.
The sheriff's bomb squad removed a World War II grenade from a tool shed in Monrovia Friday. One month earlier, grenades were found on a trail in a park in Palos Verdes Estates, but were inert.
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Parker said people should call local law enforcement whenever they see suspicious devices.