A man is in custody after a hit-and-run crash Tuesday which led police to a suspicious device and forced them to close a road in a Midtown neighborhood.

Sergeant Wayne Byrom with the St. Joseph Police Department said officers responded to the area of 26th and Mulberry around 9 a.m. While investigating, officers found a suspicious device and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was called in to assist. ATF took the device from the scene.  Byrom said he cannot confirm if it was an actual explosive device.

“It was enough that they took it and secured it in the equipment that they have,” Byrom said.

The driver allegedly ran from the scene. Sgt. Byrom said the the alleged driver, a St. Joseph man was taken into custody in connection with the investigation at a separate location.

As we previously reported, ATF was called in to assist police in another incident in which an explosive device was detonated on the front porch of a home on Northeast Parkway early Monday morning.  Byrom said at this point it is too early to tell whether there is a connection between the incidents.  He said there is nothing to lead police to believe that there could be other devices around the area.