7:50PM EST: (UPDATED BELOW) The New Jersey State Police have stopped a car on the N.J. Turnpike and are sending a bomb squad to investigate a report of a young man carrying an explosive device to the inauguration in Washington, D.C.

The police investigation on the New Jersey Turnpike in Runnemede has closed a 25-mile stretch of the highway. State police pulled over the vehicle by Interchange 3 in South Jersey at 6:30 p.m.

The investigation has grown, and the turnpike is now shut down southbound at Interchange 4 and Northbound at Interchange 1. The stretch of roadway runs between Mount Laurel Township and the Delaware Memorial Bridge.

The FBI, State police and NJ Turnpike Authority are investigating.

The identity of the suspect has not been released. Police said he is 27 years old, 6 feet tall and from Sturbridge, Mass. They said he left his home at about 10 a.m. Tuesday.

According to WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, police received a word that the vehicle may have been carrying an explosive, possibly a threat, against President Barack Obama.

The suspect has been taken into custody and taken to the Moorestown Barracks, and a state police spokesman will only say they are looking into “some accusations.”

Further details will be posted as soon as they are available.

UPDATE 9:30PM EST: A potential bomb threat that shut down part of the New Jersey Turnpike has been found not to be credible, New Jersey State Police said.

State police spokesman Sgt. Stephen Jones said troopers took a 27-year-old Massachusetts man into custody following a car stop around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday in the southbound lanes of the turnpike in Woodbury Heights about six miles south of Exit 3.

Jones said state police stopped a Black Acura with Massachusetts plates after receiving a tip from federal authorities that the driver might be armed and dangerous, and possibly carrying a bomb. Jones said the original tip came from a member of the man’s family.

“Indications are this was erroneous information, albeit credible-sounding information, and at this point it seems to indicate that this was not a legitimate threat,” Jones said.

Jones said investigators would complete the inspection of the vehicle before fully reopening the roadway. He said FBI agents were questioning the man — who was not charged — at the state police station in Moorestown.

(Source: MyFoxNY / WNBC)