The explosive device that forced cops to evacuate an East Harlem police precinct on Wednesday afternoon was a crude bomb with “a low explosive powder impact,” officials said Thursday.
The device was found in a car outside the 25th Precinct stationhouse shortly before noon after cops responded to a dispute between two bumbling cousins — who admitted they had a bomb, police said.
Police called in the bomb squad and evacuated the East 119th Street precinct as a precaution.
Chontrell Wrenick, 50, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and assault with intent to physically injure with a weapon.
The assault charge stems from Wrenick’s alleged attack on his cousin with a machete — the scuffle that got cops involved in the incident in the first place, the department said.
The battling kin pulled up outside the precinct, with the pair cursing each other out and the alleged victim reporting the supposed assault by his cousin to cops.
That’s when the victim allegedly told police there was an “explosive device” inside the car.
“It will be definitely described as either capable of functioning as designed, capable of exploding, or was it something made to look like a bomb but isn’t really a bomb?” NYPD bomb squad commander Lt. Mark Torre told reporters Wednesday.
The answer was revealed Thursday.
Meanwhile, both cousins have lengthy rap sheets, including for drugs and grand larceny.