The hostage-taker at a Hillary Clinton campaign office walked out this evening and was immediately arrested. The final hostage ran out just beforehand, ending a drama that began more than five hours earlier.

The hostage-taker, who claimed to have a bomb, walked into the office shortly before 1 p.m. and took several hostages, police and witnesses said. The campaign said earlier they were volunteers. The man let a woman with an infant go immediately and at least one other woman got out about two hours later. The dramatic ending came shortly after 6 p.m.

The police said earlier no one had been injured, and that appeared to still be true at the end.

The man walked out of Clinton's satellite office with his arms at his side. He put down a homemade bomb-like package and was immediately surrounded by SWAT team officers with guns drawn. The suspect was put on the ground, handcuffed and taken two blocks to the police office.

Clinton was in the Washington area at the time, but the confrontation brought her campaign to a standstill just five weeks before the New Hampshire primary. She canceled all appearances, as did her husband, and the security around her was increased as a precaution.

The suspect was an older man known around the town to be mentally unstable, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press earlier. The official declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak pubicly about the case.

The official said the man walked into the campaign office and opened his jacket, revealing what appeared to be a pipe bomb. The law enforcement official confirmed the name of the man as Leeland Eisenberg and said Eisenberg demanded to speak with Clinton. Authorities did not know what Eisenberg wanted to talk to Clinton about. They believe the device strapped to the man's chest was made with road flares, not a bomb, the official said.

Eisenberg made local headlines in March when he held a news conference on the steps of Rochester City Hall to complain about a police policy of placing fliers in unlocked cars warning motorists to lock their doors. "This is nothing more than a gimmick to get around the Constitution and go around in the middle of the night upon unsuspecting citizens in their own yard and search their vehicles," Eisenberg said. The police, who said they were just trying to reduce theft from motor vehicles, changed the policy in response.

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