PITTSBURGH -- Police removed an item they described as a suspicious cylinder from the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, forcing part of Forbes Avenue in Oakland to be shut down.

The 3-foot-long cylinder was found inside a car that Pittsburgh police had followed onto campus early Friday afternoon, spokeswoman Diane Richard said.

A police bomb squad examined the cylinder and found that it was not dangerous, Richard said.

Police originally began following the car because it matched a description given by an anonymous caller who reported seeing somebody putting something that looked like a bomb inside the vehicle.

Joel Chestnutt, a 26-year-old philosophy major, will be charged with disorderly conduct and possession of a facsimile of a weapon of mass destruction, police said.

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