SANTA MONICA – A Santa Monica man faces felony charges after police discovered multiple booby traps rigged with shotgun shells at his residence on the 3300 block of Exposition Boulevard.
Officers were called to the home around 8 p.m. on Nov. 17 after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots and a male voice in the garage threatening to kill someone, according to the Santa Monica Police Department.
Inside the home, officers found two elderly women unharmed, along with a man later identified as Arthur Tabuchi, also unharmed. A search of the garage revealed a shotgun shell mounted on a workbench, rigged with a spring-loaded firing pin and a trip wire connected to the garage door. Police said the device was designed to discharge the shell toward the door when opened…