Person in custody after suspicious bags found at marathon finish line

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A suspect is in custody tonight after police report suspicious bags were found at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street.

Those bags, police report, were destroyed in controlled blasts by the BPD Bomb Squad. A law enforcement official said the suspect, Kevin Edson, will be arraigned tomorrow morning in Boston Municipal Court.

An eyewitness told the Herald tonight a man dressed all in black and wearing a black veil walked down the middle of Boylston Street, with a backpack on his back, chanting "Boston strong, Boston strong."

"He was weird looking," said Matthew VanWinkle. "He was wearing a black veil, a black hat, and no shoes."

Police pushed everyone back as the bomb squad went to work. A bomb squad member yelled "fire in the hole" as they did a controlled detonation. The backpacks did not have explosives and were "neutralized."

That section of Boylston near Dartmouth Street was closed down from about 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. A robot was used to examine one of the bags.

The Boston Fire Department has also sent an engine and ladder company to the scene as a precaution. The MBTA also tweeted out that Green Line trains were bypassing the Copley stop.

Sadly, the alert hit around the same time as the Norden brothers, J.P. and Paul, were completing their team's Hopkinton-to-Boston relay to raise funds for prosthetics. Both brothers lost a leg in last year's attacks at the finish line. Now the double-decker bus they rode in is parked near the area.

"Given the day and the anniversary, everyone was a little scared," said Chris Hiserman, 33, who joined the family to celebrate the fund-raiser. "It's kind of a ghost town which is kind of a shame. To be with the Norden family and then to have the memories come back in a flash." He then shook his head in disbelief.

One bag could be seen just under the photo bridge about 30 feet after the historic finish line of the Boston Marathon. The stands are already set up in preparation for Monday's 118th running of the race.

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Performance art my a**

We'll see what kind of performance art he will be doing behind bars.

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Wow.. Hopefully everything will go smoothly for the Boston Marathon next week.

I will be there to support my Husband running at the Marathon.