WOODLAND HILLS — Police searching a motel for a methamphetamine lab closed a stretch of Ventura Boulevard for more than four hours Thursday night after coming across a "substantial" amount of black powder in a motel room, officials said.
Investigators, who had been searching in the area since Thursday morning, came across the black powder Thursday afternoon at a motel in the 22620 block of Ventura Boulevard, said Los Angeles Police Officer Jason Lee.
