
The truck is being processed by the Irvine Police Department, a police spokesman told The Times on Saturday afternoon. Another law enforcement officer confirmed that weapons were found inside the truck.
Irvine police spokeswoman Julia Engen said the truck is in a "secured evidence storage locker" in Irvine and is "severely burned." She added that it was unclear how the axle damage occurred. She declined to comment about any other items found in the vehicle.
Despite the large amount of resources being deployed to the manhunt, CBS reported that authorities are making sure police will maintain a presence at Sunday night s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The news organization said officers scheduled to have the day off would be called in and others would work overtime.
While investigators examined the truck in Irvine, the search for Dorner continued in the mountains near Big Bear. Approximately 50 officers are searching the forest and doing door-to-door checks, according to a statement from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department
Bill Fitzgerald, an Orange County's Sheriff's Department helicopter pilot, said multiple law enforcement agencies have collaborated to search the mountains from the air. Fitzgerald said authorities took to the sky Thursday, but were grounded Friday by the weather. The helicopters were airborne again around 10 a.m. on Saturday.
Police say that Dorner has killed three people and injured others in a campaign to take revenge on those he blamed for his dismissal from the LAPD four years ago. Investigators are scrutinizing mesa arizona mobile home vacation rentals a conspiracy-laden manifesto published on what they believe was Dorner s Facebook page. The screed threatened unconventional and asymmetrical warfare against police officers and their families, saying that Dorner has no choice but to kill to reclaim his damaged reputation.
Police accuse him of killing the daughter of a retired LAPD captain and her fiance, who were found shot to death last Sunday mesa arizona mobile home vacation rentals in a car in Irvine. While on the run, police said, Dorner shot three police mesa arizona mobile home vacation rentals officers, one fatally, in Riverside County.
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