ANDOVER – State police are investigating a bomb threat after a packaged device was found early Friday afternoon at a camp on South Arm Road in Andover.
Trooper Tyler Stevenson said Friday that a state police bomb specialist from southern Maine retrieved the package left at 734 South Arm Road, a camp nestled in trees.
“It was made to look like a bomb,” Stevenson said. “We have possible suspects. The package was taken to the State Police Crime Lab in Augusta to be analyzed.”
Stevenson said the incident involves a dispute of some kind.
“There were no explosives in the box,” he said.
The victim told a passerby that there were batteries taped together inside the box, with protruding wires.
The incident began at 1:06 p.m. when a man called the Oxford County Communications Center in Paris and reported finding a possible incendiary device on his porch.
Andover Rescue and firefighters were told to stage at the station, while Stevenson met with the victim.
South Arm Road, at one point, was closed to traffic, because the suspicious package was said to be within 50 yards of the road.
After the road was reopened, the victim’s driveway was blocked by the trooper for two hours, with assistance from Maine Warden Brock Clukey.
The bomb specialist arrived at 3:25 p.m., asked the victim some questions, then walked up the driveway to look at the package.
He returned moments later carrying the opened box, masking tape hanging from it.
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