Crime & Safety
Police Investigate 'Suspicious Container' Near Sunset Strip
The container is descriped as a metal cylinder with wires and tape, according to preliminary reports.
A Los Angeles police bomb squad was sent to an area near the Sunset Strip to investigate a suspicious container, but no injuries were reported, police and city fire officials said.
The incident began around 1 p.m. at 1200 N. Londonderry Place, said Officer Cleon Joseph of the Los Angeles Police Department.
"It is a container. It is not leaking," Joseph said. "They are checking it now just as a precaution."
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Los Angeles city firefighters were sent to the location, but no injuries were reported, said LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey.
The container was described in preliminary reports as a metal cylinder with wires and tape, and nails were also spotted.