Crime & Safety
Lunch Pail Causes Shutdown of Old Greenwich Train Station
Greenwich PD: Suspicious package turned out to be a 'A lunch pail with some pipes.'
A lunch pail left on the platform of the Old Greenwich train station caused the closure of the station platform for about an hour Friday afternoon, after Metro-North Police received reports of a suspicious package shortly before 3 o'clock.
According to Greenwich Police spokesman Lt. Kraig Gray, Metro-North police requested Greenwich Police respond to the station off Sound Beach Avenue to assist with clearing the area.
The Stamford Police Bomb Squad was brought in. "It was a lunch pail with some pipes in it. It was nothing," Gray said.
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The station was reopened about an hour later at 3:58 p.m., Gray said.
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