State Police are at the Longfellow Bridge right now, checking out a "suspicious package," Boston Police tweet. Presumably, it is not made of Lite Brites.

But that's what somebody did early this morning - and after he was fished out of the Charles, he was taken away in the custody of the State Police, Boston_Fireman tweets.

Channel 5 reports the two alleged yutzes charged with selling 91,000 pounds of ornamental scrollwork from the Longfellow Bridge as scrap last year are expected to plead guilty.

According to the Middlesesex County District Attorney's office, Richard Stewart of Saugus and Joseph Falzone of Nashua, NH are scheduled for trial on Aug. 11

The two are, of course, charged with selling almost 100,000 pounds of decorative trim for scrap last year - using a state-owned dump truck to haul the metal from the Stoneham yard where it had been stored while the state repaired the bridge - to a scrap-metal yard in Everett.

More from the Middlesex County DA's office.

According to a press release that I received from the DCR yesterday, the upstream (south) sidewalk of the Longfellow Bridge reopened yesterday.

Here's the full text of the press release:

Jonathan captures the Longfellow in a moody moment.

Used under this Creative Commons license.

All lanes now open, Channel 4 reports.

Cool photo of the sun going down over the Longfellow Bridge and a flock of geese.

RDA shows what you can see if you're on the Longfellow Bridge at just the right time.

A pair of Conservation and Recreation workers were arrested today on charges they sold decorative railings from the Longfellow Bridge for scrap, the Middlesex County DA's office announced.

The two allegedly made $12,000 for the 91,260 pounds of metal, which they loaded and hauled away with a state Bobcat and dump truck over several Saturdays in July and August, prosecutors say. The state estimates it will cost $500,000 to $700,000 to replicate the castings, which were melted down by an Everett scrap dealer and which had been stored in a Stoneham yard while the bridge underwent repairs.

Richard Stewart, 42, of Saugus, and Joseph Falzone, 43, of Nashua, NH, were arraigned in Malden District Court today on 12 counts of receiving stolen goods and 12 counts of conspiracy.

Stewart is the DCR Middlesex Fells District Manager and Falzone is a DCR employee.

Prosecutors did not say if either of the two was the DCR worker suspended for eight days last week for selling non-Longfellow scrap from the same yard to pay for a party for co-workers.

Innocent, etc.