Police: Somebody tried burning down Dorchester court with a Molotov cocktail

Boston Police report a lit Molotov cocktail fizzled when it was thrown into Dorchester District Court around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Police say officers responding to a call from the courthouse's security manager found an incendiary device in the first-session court rooom:

A broken window was discovered with a glass bottle containing an unknown gelatin like substance lying on the carpet below the window. Charring of the flooring was also noted below the device. The device had what appeared to be a wick protruding from within the bottle.

The city hazmat squad was called to remove the device because officers did not know what was in it. It was then sent to a State Police lab for analysis and for detection of any possible fingerprints, police say.