A suspicious device on Interstate 225 that a bomb squad investigated Tuesday night turned out to be an innocuous PVC pipe filled with personal paperwork, police said Wednesday.
The short segment of pipe, filled with papers, was found near the interstate in Aurora. The city’s police and a bomb squad from the Adams County Sheriff’s Office responded to the call around 8:20 p.m. Tuesday and closed the highway in both directions from East Sixth Avenue to East 17th Avenue.
Police referred to the object in a tweet as “a possible pipe bomb.”
ܳٳǰپreopened the road at about 11 p.m. after they determined the object was not a bomb.
“Someone was just using it for their own personal paperwork,” Aurora police spokesman Matt Longshore said Wednesday.
Longshore said he didn’t know who called 911 about the object and police did not know how the pipe fell on the road.
“If this is yours, perhaps just call us to get it back and not tell everyone on here,” the department wrote on Twitter.
THIS was the culprit! THIS was the ire 😡 of so many last night on I-225. You may recall it was determined to NOT be a bomb. If this is yours, perhaps just call us to get it back and not tell everyone on here 😂 Thanks again for your patience last night!
— Aurora Police Dept (@AuroraPD)
