200 Evacuated From Homes Over Explosives Scare
About 200 residents of a Park La Brea-area neighborhood were evacuated for several hours Friday morning after police raiding a suspected methamphetamine laboratory at 422 S. Detroit St. found a bottle of a liquid that they thought might be highly explosive nitroglycerin.
Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad specialists used plastic explosive to detonate the liquid safely in a special “total containment vehicle” parked in front of the apartment house. They said it will take several days of testing to determine what the liquid was.
Narcotics officers said a large volume of chemicals used in the manufacture of methamphetamine, or “speed,” was recovered, but no suspects were found in the apartment.
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