Crime

Denzel Washington Movie Prop...or Dangerous Dynamite? Suspicious Device Detonated in Ohio

By Barry Leibowitz

September 16, 2010 / 9:13 AM EDT / CBS News

Denzel Washington accepts Tony Award, June 13, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) AP

RAYLAND, Ohio (CBS/AP) It looked like two sticks of dynamite with wires attached, so an Ohio bomb squad blew it up. But the sheriff of Jefferson County says, actually, the "suspicious device" found by railroad workers was probably a prop from the making of a Denzel Washington movie, "Unstoppable."

Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway workers found the item Tuesday along tracks near Rayland, about 120 miles east of Columbus. Sheriff Fred Abdalla says the device, which closely resembled two sticks of dangerous dynamite, was detonated by a bomb squad and turned out to be harmless.

Abdalla told WTOV-TV in Steubenville, Ohio, the apparent movie prop may have been left behind by a film crew earlier this year. The thriller "Unstoppable" is about a runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals, and it's due to arrive in theaters in November.