-By Warner Todd Huston
Photo by Charles Krupa
**UPDATE** 3:15 PM Eastern: Bomb threat at Boston federal courthouse. Evacuation in process.
**UPDATE** 3:10 PM Eastern
@universalhub Boston Police Special Ops taking up positions in Kendall Square, blocking Broadway.
— Tom Woodfin (@twoodfin) April 17, 2013
**UPDATE** 3 PM Eastern, FBI reiterating that NO arrest has been made. Some sources say someone has been detained for questioning but not yet officially arrested.
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2PM Eastern: CNN correspondent John King reported this afternoon that authorities have identified a suspect in the bombing of the Boston Marathon.
On the afternoon of April 17, King reported that, “the description given to me was a dark skinned male” but it wasn’t clear whether or not police had anyone in custody.
The identification came from surveillance video of the crowd recorded near the Lord & Taylor store along the race route and near where the second blast occurred.
Authorities say they have video of the “dark skinned” man dropping a backpack near the store shortly before the explosion took place. The bombs, made of six-liter pressure cookers packed with nails and ball bearings, are reminiscent of those used in bombings in India.
Boston Mayor Tom Menino also noted on Wednesday afternoon that the police are “very close” to identifying a suspect.
Shortly after King’s report aired, the Associated Press reported that an arrest is “imminent.”
“A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation says a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is about to be arrested.”
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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