Thread: LAPD finds 1,200 guns, two tons of ammo in dead man's Pacific Palisades home

Dead man with cache of 1,200 guns identified -- 'He was just a loner'


Detectives found more than 1,200 firearms inside a Pacific Palisades home after responding to a report of a body in a car outside the house.


By VERONICA ROCHA AND RICHARD WINTON contact the reporters

A man found dead in a vehicle in a Pacific Palisades neighborhood and later tied to a home where police found a massive cache of firearms was a 60-year-old longtime Los Angeles County resident who mostly kept to himself, according to interviews.

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Shirley Anderson, the longtime partner of the man's late father, said she hadn’t seen Jeffrey Alan Lash since 2010 when she got a call last week from the L.A. County coroner's office.

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. Anderson said Lash had not provided her with an address or phone number for years.

“We never knew where he lived,” she said.

Coroner Chief Craig Harvey said his office has been in contact with a distant family member of the dead man, whom investigators believe is Lash. A formal identification has yet to be made.

After discovering Lash’s body, Los Angeles police investigators found more than 1,200 firearms and tons of ammunition inside his fiancee’s Pacific Palisades home.

The fiancee's attorney, Harland Braun, also identified the dead man as Lash.

LAPD Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said the private gun collection was probably worth a small fortune.

"There are a lot of expensive guns here," he said.

Albanese said the man was a collector and there was no evidence he ever sold weapons or was a licensed firearms dealer.

Anderson said she was stunned to learn of Lash's death.

Born in the mid-1950s, Lash grew up in a modest Westchester neighborhood, she said. His mother was a pianist and his father was a microbiologist who owned a medical laboratory, said Anderson, who said she had known Lash for at least 25 years.

For a while it appeared that Lash would follow in his father’s footsteps.

In the 1980s, he told his parents he was attending UCLA and studying to become a scientist. But he dropped out and never returned, she said.

UCLA spokesman Ricardo Vasquez said Lash was a student at one point but said he could not release details about his enrollment because Lash had requested that his records remain private.

Lash's life become somewhat of a mystery even to those who previously knew him well.

Anderson, 93, said she knew little about what he did after he left UCLA because his communication with the family was limited. He never told her what he did for a living, she said.

“He was just a loner, as far as we were concerned,” she said.

“He just became weird because he changed all of a sudden.”

Anderson said Lash was sick and at one point sought holistic medicine for treatment. Police said he had late-stage cancer when he died.

Anderson said she only found out that Lash had a fiancee from news articles following his death. Anderson never knew Lash was a gun collector, but she said he used to frequent gun shops.

“He was not very forthcoming about what he was doing,” Anderson said. "He had to be doing something to collect all those guns.”

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Dead man with cache of 1,200 guns identified -- 'He was just a loner'


Detectives found more than 1,200 firearms inside a Pacific Palisades home after responding to a report of a body in a car outside the house.

By VERONICA ROCHA AND RICHARD WINTON contact the reporters


A man who was found dead in a vehicle in a Pacific Palisades neighborhood last week and linked to a home where police discovered a massive cache of firearms appears to have been a 60-year-old longtime Los Angeles County gun collector, police and others said Wednesday.

An attorney representing the dead man’s fiancée identified him as Jeffrey Alan Lash. Several law enforcement sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an LAPD investigation into the death is ongoing, said detectives believe the dead man was Lash but have not made a conclusive identification.

Shirley Anderson, the longtime partner of Lash’s late father, said she hadn’t seen Lash since 2010 but received a call last week from the L.A. County coroner's office.

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. Anderson said Lash had not provided her with an address or phone number for years.

“We never knew where he lived,” she said.

Coroner Chief Craig Harvey said his office had been in contact with a distant family member of the dead man and was “working with that name [Lash] as a possibility.” A formal identification has yet to be made of the body, which was badly decomposed.

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.

LAPD Capt. William Hayes, who heads the department’s Robbery-Homicide Division, said the private gun collection was worth at least $500,000 and possibly more than $1 million.

“He was either into doomsday survivalism, gun collecting or both,” Hayes said, adding that the man appeared to be wealthy.

LAPD Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said the man was a collector and there was no evidence he ever sold weapons or was a licensed firearms dealer.

Several people who live in the area where the body was found said the man was known only as “Bob” in the neighborhood and described him as a gun fanatic who claimed to have worked covertly for the government. Police have said the man did not do such work for the government.

His fiancée’s attorney, Harland Braun, previously said the man died in the parking lot of Bristol Farms on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica on July 4. His fiancée, the lawyer said, wasn’t sure what to do with the body and left it in a vehicle on Palisades Drive while she headed to Oregon. Braun said his client believed that a government agency that the man had claimed to work for would come to collect him.

Anderson said she was stunned to learn of Lash's death.

Born in the mid-1950s, Lash grew up in a modest Westchester neighborhood, she said. His mother was a pianist and his father was a microbiologist who owned a medical laboratory, said Anderson, who said she had known Lash for at least 25 years.

For a while it appeared that Lash would follow in his father’s footsteps. In the 1980s, he told his parents he was attending UCLA and studying to become a scientist. But he dropped out and never returned, she said.

UCLA spokesman Ricardo Vasquez said Lash was a student at one point but said he could not release details about his enrollment because Lash had requested that his records remain private.

Anderson, 93, said she knew little about what Lash did after he left UCLA because his communication with the family was limited. He never told her what he did for a living or where his money came from, she said.

“He was just a loner, as far as we were concerned,” she said. “He just became weird because he changed all of a sudden.”

Anderson said Lash was sick and at one point sought holistic medicine for treatment. Police said he had late-stage cancer when he died.

Anderson said she never knew Lash was a gun collector, but she said he used to frequent gun shops.

“He was not very forthcoming about what he was doing,” Anderson said. “He had to be doing something to collect all those guns.”

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BODY OF MAN WITH OVER 1,200 GUNS LEFT IN SUV FOR GOVERNMENT AGENCY TO FIND



by AWR HAWKINS 22 Jul 2015 Pacific Palisades, CA 139

Breitbart News previously reported that the LAPD discovered over 1,200 guns and two tons of ammunition in a condominium in the liberal coastal neighborhood of Pacific Palisades last week. Nearby, the body of the alleged owner of the guns and ammo was found decomposing in an SUV.

It is now being reported that the body of the dead man–who has yet to be named–was left in the SUV for nearly two weeks before discovery and that it was left there by the man’s fiancée, who thought a government agency was tracking him and would locate the body.

According to the LA Times, the dead man–whom neighbors say they knew as “Bob”–“claimed to have worked covertly for either the FBI or the CIA.” They said he would often talk to them about his willingness to show them “self-defense moves” and talk to them about “night missions” that involved “swimming to Catalina.”

Harland Braun represents the dead man’s fiancée, Catherine Nebron, and explains that she knew he was dead and left his body in the SUV believing one of the government agencies for which he allegedly operated would find him.

The man was reportedly suffering from cancer and died on July 4th.

Braun indicated, “The fiancée wasn’t sure what to do with the body, but figured the same unnamed agency watching him would know that he died and would come for him.” He said, “Nebron parked the vehicle on Palisades Drive and left it” with the body inside.

LAPD Sergeant David Craig explained that the department seized the guns and ammunition “for public safety” upon discovery, but they “don’t think the weapons are illegal.” They have been conducting background checks on the over 1,200 firearms since seizing them.

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Guns, Body Found in Highlands

By 5 p.m., hundreds of guns and boxes of ammunition had been removed from the residence.

By SUE PASCOE Editor
July 22, 2015

Highlands residents were thrown into turmoil Friday and Saturday as police first investigated the discovery of a dead body on Palisades Drive,and subsequently hundreds of weapons and ammunition in a nearby condominium.

The situation started Friday, when a man was discovered dead and covered in his car in the 1700 block of Palisades Dr.

He supposedly had been dead almost two weeks and the police had been tipped off to his death by his girlfriend’s lawyer.

The death is under investigation and LAPD had not released a name by presstime. During the death investigation, they were led to the man’s residence, which is supposedly owned by his girlfriend, and was thought to be possibly booby-trapped.

Residents were evacuated from nearby townhouses shortly after 1 p.m. on Saturday.

Lilly Shafighi, who lives in a nearby dwelling,had gone down the hill on errands but drove back up after her 13-year-old son Aaron called to tell her the police wanted him to leave and she was supposed to come get him.

She was stopped by police at the corner of Verada de la Montura and told, “There’s a hazardous situation in one of the condos and no one is allowed up the hill.”

“But my son’s up there and the police told him to have me pick him up,” she said.

A second parent drove up and said her daughter was also told to leave.

The police told parents to call the kids and have them walk down.

As she waited for her son, Shafighi said that police had been in the area for two days and had even put up yellow tape.

She said she asked her security company what was going on and they told her, “There’s no threat to the community; the police are conducting an investigation.”

Visibly upset, she told the News: “My son said, ‘there’s explosives in one of the units.’”Shortly after her son came down the hill with their dog, Lucy, three bomb squad trucks, a K-9 bomb squad truck, three cars identified with the bomb unit and a large truck with bomb squad on it, flew up the hill.

LAPD confirmed that there were homicide/robbery,bomb, and hazardous material police units on the site.

A neighbor said the garage and home suggested the couple were hoarders and the police confirmed it was a possible hoarding situation.

Additionally, “There were hundredsof guns,” a police officer told the News.Initially, there was worry that perhapsthe place had been booby-trapped, whichwas why all residents were cleared from thearea and the bomb squad brought in.

FireStation 23 went to the site around 4 p.m.as a precautionary measure.Guns were checked to see if they were loaded and then taken out of a residence in the Palisades Highlands on Sunday.

A .50-caliber rifle, which can no longer be purchased in California, was one of the guns found.(Continued on Page 3)

(Continued from Page 1)Body Found After the bomb squad gave the all clear,residents were allowed back in their homes around 11 p.m.

On Sunday morning, police started pulling the guns out of the garage. By noon,hunting and sniper rifles, handguns, both semi auto and revolvers—single-bolt action and semi-auto rifles of various calibers had been catalogued.

LAPD estimated that only about 30 percent of the cache has been taken out of the residence and that they had been found not only in the garage, but throughout the home.Further developments will be posted on Facebook.

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Mystery Man Found Decomposing In Car Had More Than 1,200 Guns, Cash, Underwater Car

July 22, 2015 6:57 PM

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – An attorney said Wednesday that the body of a mystery man was decomposing in his car in the tony Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Southern California for nearly two weeks before he was found by authorities on July 17.

Inside his home, detectives discovered more than 1,200 guns, scopes, 6.5 tons of ammunition, bows and arrows, knives, machetes and $230,000 in cash.

They also found eight of the 14 vehicles registered to the man stashed across Los Angeles, including a Toyota SUV designed to drive underwater.

Who the man was and how he came to accumulate the arsenal and vehicles are questions authorities are still trying to answer.

Veteran defense attorney Harland Braun represents the man’s fiancée Catherine Nebron and identified him as Jeffrey Alan Lash.

That’s also the name coroner’s officials are working with and they’re in touch with a relative to try to officially identify the body, said Craig Harvey, chief of investigations for the coroner’s office.

Lash and Nebron were together for 17 years and she believed him when he told her that he worked as an undercover operative for multiple unnamed government agencies, Braun said.

“The story itself sounds totally crazy but then how do you explain all this?” Braun said. “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.”

LAPD Deputy Chief of Detectives Kirk Albanese said there’s no indication the man was doing anything illegal with the weapons. Detectives were reviewing everything, but so far the guns appeared to be registered to him. 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. For three hours they tried to ice him down.

“He wouldn’t go to a hospital and didn’t want any 911 call,” Braun said. When he died, Nebron parked him in a car down the street from the condo they shared, the lawyer said.

Police say they don’t believe there was any foul play involved in his death, but the official cause has been deferred pending further investigation.

Lash told Nebron the government agencies would take care of his body and the items in the home, so Nebron and her friends took a trip to Oregon, distraught.

When they returned about 10 days later, Nebron was shocked to still see Lash’s body in the car.

She contacted Braun, and together they contacted Los Angeles police, who found the body, guns and more.

The guns are worth more than $5 million, Braun said, and along with the ammunition, took three days to remove from the home, which remains piled 6-feet high with items throughout.

“Hoarding times 10,” Braun said.

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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More than 1,000 guns seized from a home in upscale neighborhood of L.A.

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