El Cajon
A badly decomposed box of dynamite was found in a storage shed in El Cajon on Thursday, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said.
The box, containing 85 sticks of the explosive, was discovered Thursday afternoon by James Ellar, 41, in an old shed behind a house at 2475 Sloan Canyon Road, sheriff’s deputies said. The dynamite had belonged to Ellar’s grandfather, a blaster who died five years ago.
Bomb detectives, who neutralized the dynamite before removing it from the site, are expected to destroy the explosives today, a department spokesman said.
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