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Pierce College became the site for the detonation of a military pyrotechnic device according to Los Angeles Police Department officials.
“The device was received by an arrest and we chose Pierce to detonate it,” said detective supervisor Doug Stice. “If it were anything larger, we wouldn’t have picked here.”
Los Angeles Police Department officer Don Thompson sets up the military pyrotechnic device in the farm area beside Parking Lot 8 of Pierce College Monday, April 20, 2009, to be set off. “It was a community service that Pierce did to allow us to set off the device,” said Thompson. (Gil Riego Jr. / Roundup)