Crime & Safety
Explosive Device in Aptos Detonated by Police Sunday
The handmade device was located Sunday afternoon in a dirt parking lot of the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park entrance.
Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputies have detonated a handmade incendiary device found Sunday afternoon in Aptos.
Around 3:20 p.m., deputies received a call about “an incendiary device consisting of household cleaning products contained in a 2-liter plastic soda bottle,” in a dirt parking lot of the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park entrance, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported.
A “robot” imploded the device since it had not yet been detonated. Aptos Creek Road was closed for about an hour during the process.
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It was not the only detonation device discovery in the area: on Thursday, Watsonville police discovered a live grenade in a rented U-Haul truck.
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