Connecticut State Police Respond To New London Ferry Terminal

This post was reported and written by New London Patch editor Dirk Langeveld.

The Connecticut State Police, assisted by the New London Police Department, converged on the Cross Sound Ferry terminal this morning, but cleared the scene soon after.

The state police's tactical team arrived on scene in an armored vehicle and met with people identified by employees as managers at the ferry. Vehicles were allowed to board the ferry to Long Island after police cleared the scene. Officers were at the terminal for about half an hour.

"It didn't come through us. The State Police came down and we assisted them," said Capt. Todd Bergeson of the NLPD.

Bergeson said he could not comment on what actions police took at the terminal.

"Nobody's in any danger," he added.

Police in Connecticut have been on alert today as police pursue two suspects who are believed to be responsible for Monday's bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured more than 170 people.

According to the Watertown Patch, police are searching for 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev of Cambridge. The other suspect in the bombings, Tsarnaev's older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in an overnight shootout with police. During the course of the search for the suspects, a 26-year-old MIT police officer was killed and a 33-year-old transit officer was wounded. 

The Connecticut State Police put out an alert for a vehicle that may have been driven by Dzhokhar, but later rescinded it after the vehicle was found in Boston. Norwalk police this morningsearched an Acela Amtrak train from Boston, which includes a stop in New London.

"Everything's going up to Boston. That may have been related to that," said a woman who answered the phone at the public information office of the Connecticut State Police in response to an inquiry about the New London search.

Brianna Lang, of Dayville, said she saw the police arrive while waiting to bring her vehicle on board the ferry.

"It was a little scary, that's for sure," she said. "But it feels good that they're actually here looking."