A 16-year-old boy is being held at a Davis County youth facility after he allegedly showed Syracuse High School custodians a knife and started a fire at the school Wednesday night.
At about 8:30 p.m., a teen walked into Syracuse High School with a bandana covering his face, a Thursday news release from Syracuse police says. When custodians asked him to leave, he showed them a knife and then “promptly” left the school.
When police responded, they spotted a fire that had been started near a dumpster behind the school. Fire crews came and extinguished the fire “immediately,” and no one was injured, the release said.
Students at the building for after-school activities were escorted out by officers, while officials searched the school for the teen.
The juvenile was taken into custody a short time later and was booked into Farmington Bay Youth Center on suspicion of aggravated assault, arson and criminal trespass.
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