WATCH: Bomb Squad Detonates Suspicious Package

The Boston Bomb Squad has detonated a suspicious package near the Coast Guard building at Seaport Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue.

The bomb squad used a “pack bot” to detonate the suitcase-like package in a wooded area of the median on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Investigators have reportedly determined that there was no explosive device in the package, just cable wires and personal items.

Surveillance video caught a man walking up to the SUV, putting down the package and then leaving the scene, WHDH, 7 news reports. That video has been circulated to area police departments. The package appeared to have some sort of power source and wires in it.

Police have arrested a suspect.

Roads were closed in the area and the Massachusetts State Police closed the exit 23 ramp and the on ramp at Essex and Lincoln Street. The off-ramp inside the O’Neill Tunnel on 93 Southbound at Purchase Street has been reopened, as have roads around the area.

The SWAT team was on scene and snipers were reportedly on rooftops in the area. An officer from Homeland Security discovered the package near the vehicle while on routine patrol with his K9, Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said. The officer checked security footage, seeing a white man in a green coat leaving the suitcase and going across Atlantic Ave. to High Street.

“We do not believe there was anything of a nature that would lead us to believe there were explosives inside, but out of an abundance of caution we went about as if it were,” Evans said.

Photo and video courtesy of WHDH, 7 News.

Watch video of the detonation here