BOSTON - Bomb units scrambled to investigate five suspicious devices reported throughout Boston on Wednesday. The reports forced the temporary shutdowns of Interstate 93 out of the city, a key inbound roadway, a bridge between Boston and Cambridge, and a portion of the Charles River but were quickly determined not to be explosive.
"It's a hoax — and it's not funny," Gov. Deval Patrick said.
The first device was found at an MBTA subway and bus station located under Interstate 93 on Wednesday morning. The device was detonated and determined to be harmless, but as a precaution the station and the interstate shut down temporarily.
Then, around 1 p.m., four calls came into Boston Police reporting suspicious devices at the Boston University Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge, which both span the Charles River, and the corner of Stuart and Columbus Streets and at the Tufts-New England Medical Center.
"None have shown to be an explosive device at this point." Boston Police Officer Eddie Chrispin said.
Catherine Bromberg, a spokeswoman for the medical center, said police told hospital officials the device was not an explosive sometime after 2 p.m. The hospital was never evacuated, though the area near where the device was reported was cleared and was being treated as a crime scene, she said.
A package, which police determined was not a bomb, also was found attached to a structure beneath the Boston University Bridge near where it crosses the Massachusetts Turnpike, said Jennifer Mieth, a spokeswoman for the state Fire Marshal.
She said officials determined it was not explosive, and was similar to the package found Wednesday morning beneath Interstate 93 at the Sullivan Square T station on the Orange Line. Mieth described the object at the T station as "a sophisticated electronic device."
Subway service across the Longfellow Bridge, between Boston and Cambridge, was suspended temporarily.
A spokeswoman for the FBI said agents were assisting Boston Police.
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I'm watchin' it on the news n' they're saying there are actually pictures of Mooninites (some sorta adversary I suppose) from the Cartoon Network series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. And one picture of a man flippin' off the police. I dislike the authorities more than the next guy but this is just stupid. Very stupid..
Mooninites Shut Down Boston
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