Intro:

Man charged with possession of hoax device near finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Script:

A year after the Boston Marathon bombing a man has been taken into custody after dropping a backpack containing a rice cooker near the finish line of this years Boston Marathon and trying to run.

The scare came just hours after the city paused to mark the one-year anniversary of the 2013 edition of the race, where a bomb left at the finish line of the marathon killed three people and injured 260 others.

The hoax device forced the Boston Police Department into action as Superintendent Randall Halstead explains.

SOUNDBITE: (English) Randall Halstead, Superintendent, Boston Police Department

"When the backpack was dropped on the ground that's when we made calls for the bomb squad to come in and they did their job. That's why the area was locked down, we kept people safe, kept them out of the direct line of Boylston Street. The device after it was being investigated by the bomb squad, it was rendered safe. In the process of rendering that safe we noticed a second backpack off to the side, nobody claimed ownership of it at that time, that bag was rendered safe at this time."

A man in his 20s has since been charged with possession of a hoax device.