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Sdiver
07-23-2015, 12:43
Um, okay ..... :eek:

Mysterious LA loner with $5m gun arsenal was 'a human-alien hybrid secret agent sent to save the human race' claims his fiancee and her friend who watched him die before dumping his body in car

Man identified as 60-year-old Jeffrey Alan Lash, of LA County, died July 4 but wasn't found until July 17
Body was discovered badly decomposed inside a car in Pacific Palisades
Lash's fiancee Catherine Nebron and her employee Dawn VadBunker dumped the body
Police linked the car to Lash's fiancee's house nearby and found 1,200 guns and 6.5 tons of ammunition
Fiancee's attorney said Nebron and VadBunker believed Lash was half-alien savior
VadBunker and Nebron fled for Oregon without telling police about Lash's death because they thought CIA would come to collect his body
VadBunker's mother reported her missing last week after failing to reach her


An investigation into the death of a California weapons hoarder whose decomposing body was found in a car last week has taken a bizarre turn as it emerged that the man's fiancee believed he was a part-human, part-alien creature who was sent to earth to save humanity while working as a secret agent.

The remains of 60-year-old Jeffrey Alan Lash were discovered last Friday in a parked vehicle on Palisades Drive in the Pacific Palisades.

When Los Angeles police searched the home of Lash's fiancee, Catherine Nebron, they came upon more than 1,200 firearms valued at nearly $5million and more than 6.5 tons of ammunition.

Initially, Lash was described by a family friend simply as a weird 'loner,' but on Wednesday, the already bizarre tale had a new, otherworldly twist to it.

It appears the 60-year-old gun collector had convinced his fiancee and her employee, Dawn VadBunker that he was a human-alien hybrid working undercover on behalf of secret US government agencies.

VadBunker's worried mother, Laura VadBunker, told KTLA that the family had become increasingly worried for her state of mind, especially after having spoken to her.

'It’s worse than a Twilight Zone movie and we’ve lived through hell,' Laura VadBunker told KTLA over the phone in reference to the odd case.

Lash collapsed July 4 in a Santa Monica parking lot in front his fiancee and 39-year-old Dawn VadBunker.

The man had trouble breathing but refused to be taken to a hospital. The two women attempted to help Lash, but the 60-year-old died.

Instead of alerting the police, Nebron and her personal assistant loaded his body into an SUV parked in the 17000 block of Palisades Drive and left for Oregon.

It was not until two weeks later that an attorney representing Nebron called police and told them about the decaying body.

Defense attorney Harlan Braun said both Nebron and VadBunker believed Lash was a secret agent of extra-terrestrial origin who had been tasked with saving the human race.

Nebron told her lawyer she did not contact police about Lash's death because she thought his handlers in the CIA or another intelligence agency would come and pick up his remains.

On July 10, a week after she was last seen heading to work in Santa Monica, Dawn VadBunker's mother reported her missing because the 39-year-old mother of two took off without telling anyone.

As of Thursday morning, Dawn VadBrunker has not returned from Oregon, but she did send her mother a letter apologizing for making her family worry for her.

Mrs VadBunkers believes her daughter may be in the throes of a mental breakdown and wants her to come home to her teenage daughters and seek treatment.

LAPD Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese told The Los Angeles Times Jeffrey Lash's cache appeared to be a private collection and that there was no evidence that he was selling the weapons or was a licensed firearms dealer.

Many of the guns had never been fired and some still had their price tags attached.

'There are a lot of expensive guns here,' Chief Albanese told The LA Times.

Harlan Braun, Nebron's attorney, said police also seized a number of SUVs modified for use on different types of terrains, including an amphibious vehicle, and $230,000 in cash.

Shirley Anderson, the longtime partner of the Lash's late father, said she hadn't heard from Lash in five years.

She was called by the L.A. County coroner's office last week and told that a body had been found and it was believed to be Lash.

Anderson said that Lash, the son of a microbiologist, was set to follow in his father's footsteps and enrolled at UCLA in the 1980s to study to be a scientist.

However, he dropped out, and not much is known of his life after that, Anderson said.

'He was just a loner, as far as we were concerned,' the 93-year-old said.

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

Anderson said she did not know Lash had a fiancee.

She also didn't know he collected guns, but said he would often go to gun shops.

'He was not very forthcoming about what he was doing,' Anderson told the newspaper.

'He had to be doing something to collect all those guns.'

Officers said that they needed two trucks to remove all the guns to a safe location.

Commander Andrew Smith confirmed the arsenal included rifles, pistols and shotguns.

He told the LA Times: 'Our truck couldn't carry it all. We had to go back and make another trip.'

The cause of his death has not yet been determined but it is not being treated as homicide.

Detectives want to find out why he had so many guns and are examining the weapons to determine if they have been linked to any crime.

Cdr Smith continued: 'We have a lot of work to do. Running the background, history and legality of these weapons is going to require a tremendous amount of time.

'It's not a crime to have a large number of weapons so long as they were legal to own and legally obtained. We want to make sure that's the case.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3172296/It-s-worse-Twilight-Zone-movie-Decomposing-body-car-hidden-5M-gun-arsenal-missing-mother-two-believed-dead-man-alien-secret-agent-sent-save-human-race.html?ito=social-facebook

Oldrotorhead
07-23-2015, 13:38
Oh no Uncle Lash died. Now I have to find the copy of the will.:D

cbtengr
07-23-2015, 13:44
Several things immediately come to mind after reading this.

1. Only in California
2. VadBrunker will fit right in up in Oregon
3. Maybe this is where all the .22's are

Rob_Frey
07-23-2015, 15:38
Wow! He must have watched "Men in Black" too many times.

ddoering
07-23-2015, 17:44
Even more disturbing is that it takes 2 weeks to notice a dead guy in a car in CA. Surely the smell must have been a hint.

PSM
07-23-2015, 17:52
Even more disturbing is that it takes 2 weeks to notice a dead guy in a car in CA. Surely the smell must have been a hint.

In the Palisades, yeah. Venice, not so much. ;)

Pat

PRB
07-23-2015, 18:43
In the Palisades, yeah. Venice, not so much. ;)

Pat

Lol...hard to smell anything over the piles of dog shit everywhere.

PSM
07-23-2015, 19:04
Lol...hard to smell anything over the piles of dog shit everywhere.

It got worse than that. In recent years, homeless people were living on the streets in old RVs and dumping their tanks in the storm drains.

Pat

Sdiver
07-24-2015, 23:06
... and the mystery deepens ... :munchin

Mystery Surrounding Man’s Body, Weapons Cache, Missing Fiancee Stuff Of Movie Plot

LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — The body of a mystery man was decomposing in his car in the ritzy Pacific Palisades neighborhood for nearly two weeks before he was found by authorities, an attorney said.

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 after he was found on Friday. Residents of the townhome complex where the man lived were evacuated Saturday as investigators removed the weapons and ammunition.

They also located eight of the 14 vehicles stashed around Los Angeles registered to the man, including an SUV designed to drive underwater. :eek:

Who he 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 fiancee Catherine Nebron and identified him as Jeffrey Alan Lash.

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

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

“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.”

There’s no indication the man was doing anything illegal with the weapons, LAPD Deputy Chief of Detectives Kirk Albanese said. 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.

“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.

Authorities don’t believe there was any foul play involved, but won’t give a cause until there is more investigation.

Lash told Nebron the government agencies would take care of his body and the items in the home.

“He knew he was dying, he had been dying for a year, so he told her: ‘The body will be taken care of by my people … ‘ ” according to Braun.

Meanwhile, Nebron took off on a road trip to Oregon with a woman, Dawn VadBunker, whose family reporter he missing a couple weeks ago. Police have confirmed VadBunker was found in Oregon and is safe.

When Nebron returned 10 days after leaving for her trip she was shocked to still see Lash’s body in the car.

She contacted Braun, and together they called police, who found the body, guns and other belongings: “There’s no charges. She just didn’t know how to approach the police and so she came to me and we reported it to the police…”

Neighbors thought Lash was dying of cancer because his health 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.

Braun says his client will be speaking with the LAPD next week.

As for Lash’s cash, Braun says he still has no idea where it came from.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/07/23/mystery-grows-around-man-found-dead-in-car-near-home-with-large-cache-of-weapons/

Flagg
07-25-2015, 01:56
Sounds like the reason why the price of ammunition exploded in the last 10 years is because of this guy.

Divemaster
07-25-2015, 06:08
THIS is why Jade Helm is off to a slow start. Our Advon went missing with the weapons cache.

SF_BHT
07-25-2015, 08:46
Not to worry. There are assets in that district.

Re supply efforts are in progress. Since HWY 10 was cut working on alternate MSR.