Feds raid Garden Grove chemical plant that sparked mass evacuations with explosion fears

The FBI launched an early morning raid on the Orange County GKN Aerospace facility that overheated and threatened to explode, prompting a mass evacuation in May.

The California Post watched as federal vehicles and dozens of agents showed up at the Garden Grove facility Wednesday morning.

EPA Special Agent Sawyer Rotell filed a search warrant last week to rifle through the GKN Aerospace facility in search of documents or devices related to an alleged environmental crime the company may have committed by allowing the hazardous methyl methacrylate to leak last month.

“We’ve got chemists, they’re doing soil samples, they’re doing all kinds of things,” Bill Essayli, LA’s top federal prosecutor, said. “So, we’ll get to the bottom of it.”

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