WESTFIELD (WWLP) – Westfield Police have re-opened a section of Woodmont Street after several bottles filled with an unknown liquid were found there Monday night and two teenagers were arrested.
A State Police Bomb Squad robot was deployed to deal with with a Hazardous Materials situation that closed part of Woodmont Street in Westfield.
Westfield Police Lt. Jay Pitoniak said police received the call from a neighbor just before 5 p.m.
“She said she found a bottle outside the house,” Pitoniak said. “When she went to pick it up, she noticed it was foaming and had metal pieces in it.”
Pitoniak said the Westfield Fire Department was called, as were State Police, the State Fire Marshal, and the Bomb Squad.
22News cameras shot video of a robot being deployed between two houses at 83-88 Woodmont Street and video of a man being taken away in handcuffs.
Pitoniak said the robot recovered “3 or 4” of those bottles. Police arrested two residents of 88 Woodmont Street, Sean Barrett, 18, and Patrick Baker, 19. Both were charged with “placing an explosive or hoax device.”
Pitoniak said investigators have not yet determined what was in the bottles.
