Crime & Safety

Suspicious Item In Koreatown Not An Explosive: LAPD

Bomb squad responded to the area this afternoon.

LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad this afternoon removed a suspicious item found at Wilshire and Hobart boulevards in the Koreatown area. 

It was not an explosive device, according to the LAPD.

People were kept away from the immediate vicinity, but no evacuations were ordered. 

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 --- City News Service contributed to this report