Police robot checks out bags near Sunrise

Police closed part of a north Sunrise Highway service road in Bohemia Wednesday morning and used a robot to check out two trash bags in a shopping cart alongside the road, Suffolk County police said.

Suffolk Emergency Services Unit officers used a robot to remove the bags from the cart and determine they were portable electric heaters.

A 911 caller reported the cart at the corner of Lakeland Avenue and the north service road at 7:28 a.m., police said.

A police spokeswoman said the caller told police: "There's a box in a white trash bag in a Kmart shopping cart on the corner."

As the police spokeswoman said: "It was very specific."

Police closed down the road in the area as technicians went to work. The robot removed the packages from the cart, removed the boxes from the bags -- and found the heaters.

It was unclear if the heaters were new or who might have left them at the scene.

The road was reopened at about 9:10 a.m., police said.