Ocotillo
The bomb squad of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department found 12 sticks of high-quality dynamite Tuesday buried alongside a desert road in Imperial County, authorities said.
An informant took sheriff’s deputies to the spot on Dos Cabeza Road near Ocotillo, where the dynamite was hidden, said Sgt. Harry A. Smith, a sheriff’s spokesman. The dynamite was not rigged to explode.
The find was part of a cache of explosives stolen from a Ramona blasting company in 1988, Smith said. Of the 800 pounds of dynamite taken, 750 pounds have been recovered, and 21 arrests have been made.
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