— Authorities determined that a suspicious package in the Village Green Shopping Center parking lot Tuesday was harmless, containing only lighting equipment, Mount Olive police said.

Multiple telephone calls around 6:13 p.m. alerted police to an unattended duffel bag in the parking lot of the Dunkin Donuts at the shopping center, police said in a news release.

Upon arriving at the scene, police found the bag partially open and observed what appeared to be a metal cylinder inside the bag, police said.

Patrol units cleared the public from the area, and the Morris County Bomb Squad responded to the scene, police said.

An x-ray examination of the bag and its contents proved inconclusive, police said, so authorities determined the packaged would be detonated in a controlled explosion.

After its detonation, police determined that the duffel bag contained only lighting equipment, and was not a threat to public safety.

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