By City News Service
Jul 7, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Bond was granted today for a South Los Angeles man charged with illegally transporting tons of explosives – including dangerous homemade devices that were detonated by police, leading to a massive explosion that destroyed a specially designed containment vehicle and injured 17 people.
Arturo Ceja III was expected to be released from federal custody at the end of the day on an unsecured $25,000 bond signed by his parents, according to the U.S. Attorney s Office. He is expected to be arraigned on Aug. 2.
Ceja, 26, was arrested Saturday by special agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on a criminal complaint charging him with transporting explosives without a license. The charge carries a sentence of up to 10 years in federal prison, prosecutors said.
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Joseph Maez, 26, entered his plea to one felony count each of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with a 0.08% blood-alcohol content causing injury, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Maez was allegedly driving the Honda Civic that struck the victim identified as Mitchell Morales who was pushing a cart full of his belongings across Stearns Street at Radnor Avenue at 11:19 p.m. June 12, authorities said.
Morales was pronounced dead at the scene despite life-saving measures attempted by police and fire department personnel.
Maez was arrested June 13 by Long Beach police and released on bond early the next morning, jail records show.