PORT OF TACOMA, Wash. —
Police said they identified a suspicious package that caused the closure of several roads at the Port of Tacoma for several hours Sunday while the bomb squad investigated.
A Port of Tacoma police officer called the bomb squad after he found a device in the back of an old Ford that included a bottle and some tubing. The car was under the 11th Street Bridge, which has been closed to traffic for several years.
When the bomb squad investigated, they discovered the device was not a bomb, but a gasoline supply intended to keep the old car running just long enough to abandon it.
The car was registered to someone at an address in the Pierce County town of Roy.
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