Update: Eastbound Washington Reopens After Pipe Bomb Scare

Update (12:41 p.m.): The suspicious package was determined to be non-hazardous, said Capt. Gregg Karl with the Arlington County Fire Department.

Washington Boulevard has reopened.

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Original story: Eastbound Washington Boulevard at 2nd Street South has been closed due to a suspected pipe bomb.

Workers with the Virginia Department of Transportation found the suspicious package, Arlington police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said.

The Arlington County Fire Department's bomb squad is at the location.

"They brought us down to check it out, just to make sure it's nothing hazardous," fire Capt. Gregg Karl said in a phone interview from the scene. "We're in the process of doing that right now. A robot's been deployed, and they're looking at this thing VDOT found."

Motorists are advised to take alternate routes.

The bomb squad spent about 15 minutes in Cherrydale this morning following a report of another suspected package. The item in question was a piece of mail sent to the Saint Agnes Rectory on North Randolph Street. It turned out to be non-hazardous, Karl said.

The Cherrydale polling place is at Saint Agnes Parish Hall.

The bomb squad did not enter the actual polling place, Arlington County Registrar Linda Lindberg said. Authorities were called after someone with the Romney campaign complained of a suspicious package, she said.

"The polling place was not closed," she said. "There was a suspicious package there, and the bomb squad came. And it turned out to be nothing. And now they're done."