A Florida driver who was pulled over for expired license plates startled police officers after they found he had a live grenade tucked away in a rusty toolbox in the back of his pickup trunk.
'Oh shoot, is this for real?' the officer from the Flagler County Sheriff's Office can be heard saying to her partner on the bodycam footage after finding the explosive in what appeared to be an old tea container Monday.
'Oh god, I can't believe. Just back out,' the cop laughs nervously as she swings her leg over the back of the truck. 'Get out of the truck for a second. Get out of the truck, it looks like a possible grenade.'
Louis Branson, 65, was arrested after the officer found the grenade nestled inside the container, and a further search uncovered small amounts of cocaine and marijuana.
'This idiot is lucky he did not blow himself or his truck up,' Sheriff Rick Staly said.
The St. John's County explosives team removed the bomb from the vehicle and diverted traffic from the area before safely detonating it in a nearby county-owned facility.
Louis Branson, 65, was arrested and booked into the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility on Monday after police found a live grenade and drug paraphernalia in his truck
Branson was arrested for driving under a suspended license and later charged with possession of firearm, weapon, or ammo by a convicted felon, possession of marijuana and cocaine
Branson told police his wife was getting new tags for his car today and believed he had until November 10 to get new ones. He was told to exit the vehicle and was arrested. While searching his vehicle, police found a bomb and he told them it had been in the toolbox for 'three or four years'
When the officers questioned Branson about the grenade, he admitted it was a 'collectors' item and that he found it in an 'old home.'
Branson claimed he didn't know if the grenade was live or a replica, stating he just 'found it' and that he had it for 'three or four years.'
'It just stays in the toolbox,' Branson can be heard telling the police officers.
The Flagler County Sheriff's Office confirmed in a press release that Branson took the
