Officials clear suspicious packages at Time Warner Center, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s L.A. office

Suspicious packages were discovered and later cleared by law enforcement at the New York Time Warner Center and Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Los Angeles office Thursday night.

The Time Warner Center mall, which houses CNN’s New York offices, was evacuated Thursday at around 8:30 p.m. EST as the New York Police Department investigated another pair of suspicious packages on the shopping complex’s third floor, before giving the all-clear 30 minutes later.

The centre was evacuated for the first time Wednesday after crude pipe bombs were sent to CNN as well as former president Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Rep. Maxine Waters of California and others.

At around 9:45 p.m. EST, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to several news outlets that it had dispatched a bomb squad to investigate a suspicious package near Feinstein’s Westside office, which was also determined not to pose a threat approximately 30 minutes later.

In total, 10 devices were discovered over the course of the week and police are currently searching for the perpetrator.

On Thursday, another pair of packages were found in the mall portion of the Time Warner building. The first floor of the mall remains open.

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NYPD told local media that the package does not look like those sent to CNN and other public figures earlier this week. Rather, those found Thursday resembled unattended presents, though the bomb squad was sent in to investigate.

LAPD has yet to provide more information about the packages found near Feinstein’s office.

Law enforcement officials told the Associated Press that the devices found earlier this week, containing timers and batteries, were not rigged like booby-trapped package bombs that would explode upon opening, but they were still uncertain whether the devices were poorly designed or never intended to cause physical harm.

–With files from the Associated Press.