Bomb Squad Determines Suspicious Packages Are Military Aircraft Material. The items were canopy ejectors meant for Edwards Airforce Base, police say.

Suspicious boxes found near the Vineland Avenue McDonald's. 

Credit Anthony Pardines

An LAPD bomb squad determined that two suspicious packages found near a Sun Valley bus bench today labeled "explosives" contained canopy ejectors used on military aircraft, a department spokeswoman said.

The items are "not explosives per se, but more of a gas-powered system," said LAPD Sgt. Mitzi Fierro of the Media Relations section. The canopy ejectors have "an explosive property in that (they burst), but it's not like explosive material," Fierro said.

She said the package apparently was meant to go to Edwards Air Force Base.

The LAPD's Foothill Division was notified about 6:40 a.m. that a "suspicious 2-foot-by-2-foot package with the word 'explosives' written on the side of the box" was found next to a bus bench near Cantara Street and Vineland Avenue, LAPD spokesman Richard French said. Officer from the North Hollywood Division also responded, as well as Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputites.

The bomb squad was then sent to the area.

"Our Criminal Conspiracy Section will conduct a follow-up investigation to determine whether (the package) was deliberately left there and who might have been responsible for doing that," Fierro said.

Patch reporter Anthony Pardines was on the scene of this incident, click here for the earlier version of this story.

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