After grenade kills 3 L.A. sheriffs detectives, D.A. considers charges. Against who isn't clear

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Last summer, a grenade exploded at an L.A.County Sheriff’s Department training facility, killing three bomb squad detectives.

Now, the L.A.County district attorney’s office is considering whether to file criminal charges in their deaths.

The sheriff’s arson and explosives unit retrieved two abandoned grenades from the garage of a Santa Monica apartment complex on July 17.The explosives were then moved to the Biscailuz Center Training Academy in L.A., where, the next day, one of the grenades detonated, killing Dets.

Victor Lemus, Joshua Kelley-Eklund and William Osborn and marking the department’s deadliest incident in more than 150 years.Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau detectives, shortly after the explosion, focused their attention on a former military special operations forces member who allegedly left the grenades in a storage area of the Santa Monica housing complex, according to two law enforcement sources at the time.The apartment complex was where he or a significant other had once lived, according to those sources.Nicole Nishida, a Sheriff’s Department spokesperson, confirmed that department detectives had submitted a criminal investigation on April 23 to the district attorney’s office into the deadly grenade incident.Information on who could be charged in the deputies’ deaths or the handling of the explosives — or the charges they might face — was not available.

But search warrants have focused on the source of the grenades.In the days after the deadly explosion, detectives and bomb technicians, using search warrants, combed a yacht and a storage lockup in Marina del Rey.A law enforcement robot was used to search a group of storage units in an alley behind the Shores apartment complex, and could be seen removing items.The yacht is tied to a former U.S.

special operations operator turned stunt coordinator, according to sources familiar...