A domestic violence arrest warrant was served Wednesday at a home in South Los Angeles, leading to the discovery of a huge cache of fireworks inside the home that prompted evacuations of nearby houses and investigation by major crimes detectives, police said.
Officers served the warrant at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 100 block of East 85th Street, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
One person was arrested at the scene once the warrant was served and a bomb squad was called in to investigate the fireworks cache, an officer said.
Nearby homes were evacuated during the investigation, and the bomb squad hauled out boxes of what were described as non-commercial grade pyrotechnic devices, enough to fill more than three box trucks, according to investigators at the scene.
People who were inside the home were detained pending an investigation by LAPD Major Crimes Division detectives, while detectives from the LAPD’s 77th Street Station were in charge of the domestic violence investigation.
A police captain at the scene said that while the fireworks were consumer grade, the huge volume made them a particular threat should a fire break out or if they became ignited somehow.
The fireworks find comes after a fire in a converted garage on May 9 led to the detonation of pyrotechnics that reportedly blew a man’s body apart in the 2400 block of Ninth Avenue in the Jefferson Park area.