Bomb Squad Investigates Suspicious Package at Newton Diner Lot

A suspicious package discovered in the parking lot of the former Newtown Diner shut down the White Horse Pike between West Holly and West Park avenues in Haddon Township Monday morning, as the Camden County Sheriff's bomb squad was called in to investigate.

As firefighters and police from Haddon Township and Oaklyn staged around the area, the bomb squad sent in a robot to get a look at the device, which had been placed on a stump of concrete in the center of the lot.

A bomb technician walked out just after 10 a.m. to follow on what the robot had seen, then photographed and held up a printed circuit board that had been sitting on the stump.

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