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A man who planted a fake bomb at a Kearns school was sentenced to probation.
Cody Lynn Parris, 22, also was given credit for 22 days he already served in jail. Sam Sutton, deputy Salt Lake County District Attorney, after court on Friday said he asked for 120 days in jail, but 3rd District Court Judge Todd Shaughnessy opted against that.
Parris pleaded guilty on Sept. 23 to one count of attempted hoax weapon of mass destruction and had faced up to 15 years in jail.
On Aug. 26, 2015, Parris and a 17-year-old friend wrote the words "bomb," "boom" and "touch sensitive" in black marker on an empty box, which they left in front of Oquirrh Hills Elementary School.
Police were called to the school and students were evacuated to portable classrooms at the back of campus while a bomb squad was called.
Almost a year after the episode, the State Crime Lab got a match on their Automated Fingerprint Identification System to prints submitted by police for analysis, charges state.
The 17-year-old was charged in juvenile court with use of a hoax weapon of mass destruction, Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley said in September. Juvenile cases are generally not public record, and the status of that case was unclear on Friday.
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