DOVER, N.H. (AP) – Downtown Dover, was shut down for four hours Saturday as police removed a possible explosive from a car and destroyed it.

The incident began shortly before 9 a.m. when a South Berwick, Maine, man, Patrick Gorman, reported that as he parked in the Ocean National Bank parking lot, he found a possible explosive in his glove compartment.

Police cordoned off the downtown and closed down businesses as the State Police bomb squad examined the device, removed it with a robot and destroyed it in an area protected by sandbags.

Police Lt. David Terlemezian said Dover police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are investigating.

He could not give details on the device, other than to say it was a “possible explosive.”

No one was injured.