The badly decomposed body of a man was recently found in his SUV on a busy street in the posh Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades.
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After discovering the man’s body on Friday, Los Angeles police investigators found more than 1,200 firearms and about two tons of ammunition inside his fiancée’s Pacific Palisades home.
A coroner’s official, she said, told her that authorities had just found a man’s body inside an abandoned vehicle on Palisades Drive, and that they believed the man was Lash.
An attorney representing the dead man’s fiancée identified him as Jeffrey Alan Lash.
Los Angeles County assistant chief coroner Ed Winter said the man, whose name has not been released, was already decomposing when found. An autopsy was planned for Tuesday or Wednesday. Braun said his client believed that a government agency that the man had claimed to work for would come to collect him.
“The story itself sounds totally insane but then how do you explain all this?” “There’s no evidence he was a drug dealer or he stole these weapons, or had any criminal source of income, no stolen property, all the stuff you’d look for”.
While there is no absolute limit to the number of guns a person can legally own in California, LAPD spokeswoman Officer Liliana Preciado said investigators will check who was the registered owner of the weapons and if any of the firearms have been linked to any crimes. Many were still in boxes or had price tags.
Braun said Nebron and two friends were in a car at a supermarket early July 4, when Lash felt hot and had trouble breathing.
The LAPD bomb squad was sent to the home and on Saturday, they ordered an evacuation for surrounding homes for almost 12 hours.
“He wouldn’t go to a hospital and didn’t want any 911 call”, Braun said.
So when he died while out with some buddies, his ladyfriend chose to put the body in his vehicle so that the gentlemen tracking him could recover the remains. Foul play is not suspected in the man’s death, and they are not investigating the death as a homicide.
Neighbors thought Lash was dying of cancer because he appeared to be degenerating over the past year, but Lash told Nebron that he had been exposed to nerve-damaging chemicals on a mission and his condition was worsening.
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“Hoarding times 10”, Braun said.
