Report of Buried Body Leads Police to Seismic Monitors
Police responding Sunday to reports of a body buried in Reseda along the banks of the Los Angeles River instead unearthed expensive seismic monitoring equipment.
A man called the Los Angeles Police Department West Valley Division around 3:15 p.m. after two people were seen burying an object next to the river, said Police Sgt. George Wright.
Police went to the site near Tampa Avenue and Victory Boulevard, where they found two half-buried bags along a dirt embankment above the concrete river channel, Wright said.
When they cut open one of the bags, officers saw what appeared to be a plastic box. Thinking it was explosive, they called in the bomb squad, Wright said.
But there was no bomb. And after hauling one of the seismographs out of the ground, police booked it into evidence at the West Valley Station.
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