‘Capable of detonating’: Man allegedly hurls live grenade ‘with safety pin partially removed’ as he flees cops in stolen car

California troopers who retrieved a container thrown from a stolen car that was fleeing cops made a astonishing — and perchance explosive — discovery: a unrecorded grenade.

The revelation caused the evacuation of adjacent homes and required the bomb squad to travel retired and safely region the device.

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According to a press release, the incidental unfolded conscionable aft 3:30 p.m. Friday erstwhile troopers with the California Highway Patrol spotted a stolen conveyance adjacent 38th Street and Cerrito Avenue successful Oakland. They tried to propulsion the conveyance over, but the operator — aboriginal identified arsenic 28-year-old Carlos Kuceja — allegedly fled. The pursuit continued into the metropolis of Berkeley. Troopers accidental that arsenic Kuceja approached the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Rose Street, helium threw retired a container from the driver’s broadside window.

A trooper who was successful the country but not progressive successful the pursuit stopped to cod the bag.

“Upon looking inside, the serviceman observed what appeared to beryllium a grenade with the information pin partially removed,” troopers said.

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CHP notified the weaponry squad from the adjacent University of California, Berkeley, which responded and determined the grenade was “live and susceptible of detonating.”

Meanwhile, Kuceja allegedly ditched his car and started to tally distant but was rapidly taken into custody. Cops evacuated adjacent homes arsenic they searched Kuceja’s conveyance for much explosives. Finding none, constabulary allowed residents to instrumentality to their homes soon thereafter.

Kuceja’s Berkeley location besides was searched and adjacent homes were evacuated but thing was found.

The suspect present stands accused of respective felonies, including possession of a destructive device, conveyance theft and evading police. As of Monday day helium remained astatine the Alameda County Jail connected a $490,000 bond. He’s scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Tuesday.