Sacramento deputies discover massive arsenal of guns, dynamite at Carmichael home
Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies recovered an enormous trove of firearms and explosives from a Carmichael home Thursday.
The Sheriff’s Office tweeted shortly after 11:30 a.m. that a large law enforcement presence was in the area of Mission Avenue near Fair Oaks Boulevard due to a “suspicious device” being found nearby. Jesuit High School was placed on lockdown as a precaution.
Shortly after noon, the Sheriff’s Office said roadways in the area had reopened and there was no threat to the public. Jesuit lifted its shelter-in-place around the same time, school officials confirmed.
Aerial video footage from KCRA 3 showed deputies in the driveway of a residential home recovering a huge cache of firearms, many of which appeared to be rifles, shotguns or similar weapons.
Sheriff’s officials did not immediately respond to The Bee’s requests for comment.
According to KCRA 3, sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Rodney Grassmann said a suspect, identified as 39-year-old Bradley Bodai, was arrested after barricading in his home and firing at least one gunshot. No one was injured, KCRA reports, and no one else was in the home.
Jail records show Bodai was booked into the Sacramento County jail around 7:30 a.m. and remains held there, ineligible for bail, on a misdemeanor charge of discharging a firearm in a grossly negligent manner.
Authorities said they recovered more than 100 weapons, including three active sticks of dynamite, Fox 40 reported.
Deputies gathered around the firearms, which were being laid out on tarp in front of a large single-story home with a pool in the backyard, aerial video from the scene show.
The home being searched was on the 1400 block of Mission Avenue.
Public records show Bodai as residing at the home deputies searched Thursday.
This story was originally published February 25, 2021 at 11:58 AM.
