Law enforcement officials confirmed that the Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad was deployed on Monday after a military ordnance was reportedly seen beneath the overpass of the 210 Freeway in the Sylmar neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
According to KTLA, Los Angeles Police Department officials told the outlet that officers were dispatched to the 11800 block of Terra Bella shortly before 12:30 pm. on Monday. The outlet noted that while police officers did not confirm the identity of the reported military ordnance, aerial footage showed multiple Los Angeles Police Department vehicles near the Freeway 210 overpass, yellow tape blocking off the area, and bomb squad technicians.
KTLA reported that police officials confirmed that there was no threat to the public posed by Monday’s incident and that no evacuations were ordered in the area.
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Pictures shared by KTLA on X, formerly Twitter, show law enforcement officials responding to the scene of the alleged military ordnance on Monday.
According to ABC 7, the Los Angeles Police Department recently investigated another potential military ordnance that was discovered in a storage area at Exposition Park near the University of Southern California campus; however, the explosive device was determined to be inert.
In another incident, a grenade that was thought to be inert killed three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies on July 18 after it was discovered at the Biscailuz Regional Training Center in Los Angeles, according to KTLA. The outlet noted that the grenade that killed the three deputies was discovered alongside two other grenades.
Additionally, the Los Angeles Police Department Media Relations Division announced last week that two individuals notified the department that they found “what they believed were military ordnances” while cleaning a deceased family member’s home.
“Officers went to the individuals’ car and found a plastic box with several military ordnances inside. The LAPD Bomb Squad responded and used a robot to take images of the items,” the police department stated. “Because they were military devices, the LAPD collaborated with the United States Marine Corps’ Camp Pendleton EOD unit to determine whether the items were stable enough to be moved to storage.”
The Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad later packaged the devices and moved the devices to a storage facility after it was determined that the military devices were “safe to move.”
