200 Evacuated in Mid-Wilshire
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About 200 residents of a mid-Wilshire neighborhood were evacuated for several hours this morning after police raiding a suspected methamphetamine laboratory at 422 S. Detroit St. found a bottle of a liquid they thought might be highly explosive nitroglycerine.
Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad specialists used plastic explosives 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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