Following an auction at Olympic Storage on Olympic Drive, the new owners of one of the auctioned units discovered 2.5 pounds of C4 plastics explosives and another type of putty explosive, which they reported to the Clearlake Police Department on Sunday, Nov. 27.
Clearlake Police Chief Craig Clausen said the explosives were found in a lunch pail in the storage unit.
Police evacuated some nearby apartments and homes in order to create a safety zone which allowed the Napa County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Unit to use a robot to remove the materials and detonate them.
Last week, after those initially discovered materials were destroyed, the Clearlake Police Department was assisted by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, which sent an explosive detection K9 to look for more explosives.
Clausen said on Monday that the dog found no additional explosives, and the unit was cleared and turned back over to its owners.
He said police were not releasing further details about the incident at this time, including how and why Kee had the explosives in the first place.
The storage unit’s previous owner, 62-year-old Victor Russell Kee of Clearlake, was arrested last week by Clearlake Police officers for felony reckless possession of explosives, as Lake County News has reported.
Kee remains in the Lake County Jail, with bail set at $100,000, according to jail records.
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