Escondido
Dynamite stolen two years ago was used to rig a live bomb that was found Friday morning off Interstate 15 in Escondido, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department reported.
A Caltrans roadside cleanup crew member found the stick of dynamite, rigged to a detonator made of a pipe bomb and fuse, about 25 feet west of the freeway just south of Gopher Canyon Road. Sheriff’s bomb officers disarmed the device.
The department said the dynamite was stolen in April, 1988, from the Gordon Carter Construction Co. in Ramona. The find represents the 22nd recovery of some of that stolen dynamite, a spokesman said.
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