UPDATE: Police investigating after suspicious package was left on Indian Island

INDIAN ISLAND, Maine (WABI) - The Penobscot Nation Chief of Police confirmed to TV5 a suspicious package was detonated Monday evening.

Chief Robert Bryant says this all started around 6:10 p.m. when they got a report of that “package” being dropped off at the checkpoint by a woman.

The Bangor bomb squad was called into Down Street.

Now police are trying to figure out the person who might have done this.

“A suspicious package was dropped off by a woman who drove up to the checkpoint and stated that she had a dangerous package and it was going to disintegrate and that she was leaving it there,” Bryant said. “Then she turned and left the island in her vehicle.”

Police are still investigating the incident.

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