Security at the museum, which is located in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, witnessed the man open up another lid and disappeared underground.
Utility vaults are underground rooms used to store equipment for public utilities including switches and valves for natural gas and telecommunication systems, and are usually locked and inaccessible by the public.The vault outside the JANM stored a water meter, according to the LA Department of Water and Power who spoke with KTLA.
The JANM, founded in 1992, promotes understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience. “They searched the backpack and our understanding is they found a firearm, or a replica of a firearm,” Van Kirk told KTLA.
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