A sophomore was arrested and jailed in connection with library restroom fires set on March 31 and April 8, authorities say.
SAN JOSE — A San Jose State University student has been arrested and charged with arson on allegations he setThe college sophomore was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Elmwood men’s jail on suspicion of four counts of arson, and was initially held in lieu of $400,000 bail, jail records show.
Cal Fire, which dispatched its Office of the State Fire Marshal to investigate the fires alongside university police, announced the arrest Friday. The state firefighting agency issued a bulletin Tuesday — the day before the arrest — seeking public help identifying a person recorded by a security camera entering a restroom around the time of the first reported fire on March 31 inside the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library.Morgan Hill: Youth arrested on suspicion of making threats against city facility
That trash can fire, believed to have been intentionally set, occurred in a seventh-floor men’s restroom and was extinguished before causing any serious damage, police said. A second fire under similar circumstances was reported April 8 in a men’s restroom on the eighth floor.The student who was arrested was scheduled to be arraigned Friday in a San Jose courtroom.
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