‘He Could Have Been Working for Anyone,’ Attorney Says of Mystery Man With Palisades Weapons Cache

[Jesus Malverde]

The mystery around a Los Angeles man whose decomposing body was found in an SUV near a home filled with 1,200 guns, tons of ammunition and $230,000 in cash was only deepening Thursday.

Identified by an attorney for his fiancée as Jeffrey Alan Lash, 60, the man apparently acted secretively for years, never explaining to those around him exactly what he did for a living.

When he died in early July after collapsing in a Santa Monica grocery store parking lot, Lash refused to go to a hospital or let anyone call 911, celebrity defense attorney Harlan Braun said in an interview with KTLA Wednesday evening.

Braun represents Lash’s fiancée, Catherine Nebron, who fled to Oregon with an employee after leaving Lash’s body parked in an SUV outside her home in the Palisades Highlands development of upscale Pacific Palisades. The disappearance of that employee, 39-year-old Dawn VadBunker, in turn prompted a missing person investigation from Oxnard police. VadBunker was found safe in Oregon, but has not contacted her family, her mother said.

http://ktla.com/2015/07/23/jeffrey-alan-lash-pacific-palisades-mystery-man-weapons-cache/

[jberryhill]

1. What fucking morons write this shit?

"Braun represents Lash’s fiancée, Catherine Nebron, who fled to Oregon with an employee after leaving Lash’s body parked in an SUV outside her home..."

An employee of whom? The grocery store or Nebron?

Outside of whose home? Nebron or Vadbunker?

News is becoming just unreadable. I wrote more clearly than this in Jr. High.

[daleanime]

5. +1

[jberryhill]

11. You want to know what's worse?

"by Melissa Pamer, Chip Yost and Rick Chambers"

There were THREE sets of eyeballs on this thing, and it still reads like a fortune cookie.

[LuvLoogie]

6. This is an awesome sentence as well...

--When he died in early July after collapsing in a Santa Monica grocery store parking lot, Lash refused to go to a hospital or let anyone call 911, celebrity defense attorney Harlan Braun said in an interview with KTLA Wednesday evening.--

Try as they might, the dead man refused help.

[jberryhill]

8. Yeah that was messed up too

gotta give the guy some credit for refusing care after he died.

This person got hired to write! How the fuck did that happen?

[Warpy]

2. Curiouser and curiouser

Going to be fun to source all those guns, find out when, where and how they were bought and by whom. Also going to be fun tracing the movements of Lash, Nebron and VadBunker.

With that amount of cash on hand, it sounds more and more like he was gunrunning for somebody.

ETA: the pictures in the slide show are of the type of weapons used by armies, including rebels of all descriptions, not by drug gangs. Very curious. We'll see if this one gets buried within the next few days and we'll know.

[denbot]

3. This story is getting even more odd.

This is an onion that needs peeling.

[Jesus Malverde]

7. Dead Man With Weapons Stash Linked to Missing Oxnard Woman Who Believed He Was Alien Savior

A man who lived in a home filled with guns and whose decomposed body was found in an SUV in Pacific Palisades was believed to be a human/alien hybrid secretly working with the U.S. government by his fiancée and a missing Oxnard woman who worked for her, according to the fiancée’s mother.

http://ktla.com/2015/07/22/dead-man-with-hundreds-of-weapons-linked-to-disappearance-of-oxnard-mother/

[jberryhill]

9. That part is interesting

I know a guy who suddenly started believing he was in touch with alien beings who were going to instruct him in how to save the earth from vampires.

[onehandle]

4. Gun culture is a poison.

Time to end the war on drugs and start the war on guns.

[olddots]

10. very strange case so far

Its amazing how the pieces are linking together .

[Jesus Malverde]

12. Bump...nt

[underahedgerow]

13. I bet he was a black market guns dealer, who wove a bunch of stories to keep those around him

dazed and confused.

That would explain the large amount of cash.

He also sounds like he had some serious mental problems, but that's just stating the obvious!

Interesting that he didn't have anyone clean out the flat and take the money though.... not even the fiance. Of course it's hard to prepare for those things when you're dying but still, he had time to allegedly tell the woman to just leave him there.

Maybe she wasn't such a fiance, and some of this is her own delusion.