False Alarm for Police, Bomb Squad at Long Pond Area Monday Morning

Easton and Stoughton Police, and the State Police Bomb Squad responded to reports of a suspicious piece of pipe found near Monday morning, but it turned out to be a false alarm, Stoughton Executive Officer Robert Devine said.

A Stoughton Department of Public Works employee found what looked to be like a PVC pipe cut on both ends near the pond this morning, and was concerned it might be a pipe bomb, Devine said.

Police responded to the scene shortly before 9 a.m. and closed off the area at the end of Canton Street around West Street and Highland Street near the pond, and couldn’t rule out the pipe wasn’t dangerous, so the State Police Bomb Squad came and x-rayed the pipe and “it was found to be harmless,” Devine said.

Devine said officials think it “was probably part of a pool filter.”

“With anything like that, we have to treat [it] as serious until we understand it’s not,” Devine said.