((HT: MyFoxBoston/WHDH-TV's Sarah S. French's Instagram via Trenni Kusnierek))
On the one year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, a gentleman has been taken into custody for allegedly dropping two suspicious-looking backpacks near the finish line. The Green Line train system service has been suspended at the Copley Street stop while the bomb squad for Boston Police is investigating and has used a robot to tip the first backpack.
Here's the video of the gentleman in custody who is suspected of dropping the two backpacks on Boylston Street
There is also a shelter-in-place for everyone on Boylston Street at present.
More when we know more...
2030 UPDATE: There are conflicting reports out, but one network is reporting the suspect has thrown down "multiple" backpacks and not just the initial number of two...
2100 UPDATE: Boston Police bomb squad has detonated one of the backpacks
2145 UPDATE: The second backpack was detonated as well. The contents are not known at present...
2240 UPDATE: Superintendent Randy Halstead of Boston Police is saying at his press conference that the suspect has been charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and possession of a hoax device after finding a rice cooker in the first backpack. Halstead would not go into the details of the second backpack.
2320 UPDATE: From WBZ-TV's Katie Brace through her Twitter...
Second bag was camera equipment.
One bag was rice cooker filled with confetti - a man is in custody on several charges.
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