No one was injured in the small blast but Disneyland briefly evacuated the Mickey's Toontown section where Tuesday's incident occurred.(Photo Yoshikazu Tsuno AFP/Getty Images)
ANAHEIM California (AP) Police arrested a Disneyland employee on suspicion of putting a so called dry ice bomb in a theme park trash can where it exploded authorities said Wednesday.
No one was injured in the small blast but Disneyland briefly evacuated the Mickey's Toontown section where Tuesday's incident occurred.
Christian Barnes 22 was arrested just hours after the blast for investigation of possessing a destructive device Anaheim police Sgt. Bob Dunn said in a statement.
It wasn't immediately clear how police connected Barnes to the blast and Dunn did not return calls. Police had said they would scrutinize social media and surveillance footage.
Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown released a statement Wednesday saying Barnes will be suspended or fired.
Barnes who worked as an outdoor vendor was held on $1 million bail and is cooperating with investigators Dunn said.
Detectives found fragments of a water bottle in the trash can and believe Barnes placed dry ice inside it to create the explosion the police spokesman said.
So called dry ice bombs are easy to make and the size of the explosion can vary greatly depending on the container's size material and the amount of dry ice used said John Goodpaster an explosives expert at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.
The devices could cause injuries to those nearby if the built up pressure is high enough including cuts from flying bottle shards Goodpaster said.
This is a simple device. It's not a pipe bomb filled with gunpowder but it definitely will generate an explosion Goodpaster said.
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