Mass. police destroy box of explosives found in forest off Route 1
A man with a metal detector found a box of explosives in a forest off Route 1 Thursday afternoon, prompting police to destroy it, police said. Around 2:30 p.m., Rowley police officers got a call from a man who was using a metal detector who found a box of TNT and some plastic explosives buried in a metal box in a state-owned forest near Newbury on the North Shore,