NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Investigators have detonated a suspicious package that was reported outside of a Northwest Miami-Dade Police station.

Miami-Dade Police and Fire Rescue crews responded to Miami-Dade Police’s Northside District, along the 700 block of Northwest 81st Street, at around 4:30 p.m., Thursday.

The item was found in a planter in the substation’s parking lot.

7SkyForce HD hovered over the police substation, where a bomb squad member walked over to the package to place a device next to it to detonate it.

The suspicious package was detonated just after 6 p.m., aerial footage showed.

Police have confirmed the contents of the package were chicken parts.

Officers shut down Northwest Seventh Avenue in both directions while they investigated the package.

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