BEND, OR -- The State Police Bomb Squad responded to southwest Bend, Monday night, after a suspicious device was found on a curb. 

A person reported what looked like a pipe bomb just before 5:30 p.m., at the corner of Brookswood Boulevard and Lodgepole Drive. Bend Police were unable to determine whether it was dangerous and asked for help from the Bomb Squad in Salem. 

They arrived a little after 8:30 p.m., rendered the device safe and took it back to Salem for further examination.