By Julie Shapiro
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
EAST VILLAGE — The military explosives discovered in an East Village cemetery Monday are more than a dozen years old, police said.
The eight sticks of C4 found in the Marble Cemetery on East Second Street lack the markings that explosives manufacturers started using in 1997, so they must have been produced before that, an NYPD spokesman said.
The NYPD has also determined that the C4 was a type called "M112," which is produced for the military, the police source said, confirming a New York Times report.
A volunteer groundskeeper at the cemetery spotted the 10 pounds of explosives in a black plastic bag over the weekend and alerted police on Monday.
The NYPD responded by shutting down the entire block between First and Second avenues, and removing the sticks of C4 on Monday afternoon.
The explosives may still have been potent despite their age, but they could not have caused any damage because they did not have a detonator, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Monday.
Police are still looking into who placed the explosives in the cemetery and when.
