Powerful Dynamite Is Seized
Officers from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department narcotics found two sticks of an extraordinarily powerful variety of dynamite when they searched a suspected methamphetamine lab in Lakeside, a department spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Narcotics agents searched the residence of Richard Howshar, 26, in the 13000 block of Werba Valley Road on Sunday night and called in the sheriff’s arson and explosive team after finding the dynamite, spokeswoman Lorraine Truitt said.
Howshar, a convicted felon, and Sandia Everett, 32, were arrested on suspicion of possessing a destructive device, suspicion of manufacturing a controlled substance and possessing a controlled substance for sale.
The explosives are believed part of the 800 pounds of dynamite stolen from a Gordon Carter Construction storage bunker in Ramona in March, 1988, Truitt said.
Explosives investigator Sgt. Connie Grayson described the Atlas Gelmax dynamite as a very powerful variety with a nitroglycerin base.
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