Student obsessed with ISIS tried to detonate HOMEMADE BOMB in Utah school

by The Right Scoop

Remember the story we brought you the other day about someone desecrating a US flag at a Utah school and then spray painting “ISIS IS COMI” on the outside of the school? Well that same student tried to detonate a homemade bomb at a different school yesterday, a bomb that police say “would have caused significant injury or death”.

Fortunately both students and law enforcement are being credited with protecting everyone.

Here’s the short version of what happened:

Here’s more:

KUTV – St. George Utah Police are crediting “extremely perceptive” students and fast-acting law enforcement for stopping what could have been a deadly attack at Pine View High School.

“After examining the device, bomb squad members indicated that if it had detonated the device had the potential to cause significant injury or death,” Ofc. Lona Trombly of the St. George Police Department said in a press release.

Students at the St. George school noticed a bag near a vending machine that was “smoking and sizzling.”

“I could smell a smoke smell and my friends actually saw it before I did,” Jack Whalen, the teen who found the bag said and continued to explain that he looked inside the smoking bag.

They immediately notified faculty who contacted the school’s resource officer who called in the threat to law enforcement.

St. George Police, the Washington County Bomb Squad, Washington County Sheriff’s Deputies, Jax, the bomb-sniffing K-9 for DRMC and his handler, Washington County School District and members of the FBI all responded to the school.

The Washington County Bomb Squad, with the help of Jax the K9, were able to identify and disarm the bomb.

The suspect, a juvenile male who was attending a class at Pine View High School, was identified.

“That person was authorized to be on campus for coursework,” Captain Mike Giles with St. George Police said.

2News also learned the suspect was enrolled in the Junior ROTC program.

Police say the student was promoting ISIS:

Police served a warrant at the suspect’s home and say they found “items were located that were consistent with the materials used to build the device placed at Pine View,” St. George police said in a press release.

Police say their investigation confirmed it was a failed attempt to detonate a homemade explosive at the school, but police also made another startling discovery: the suspect was researching and expressing interest in ISIS and promoting the terrorist organization.

Police believe the juvenile suspect in the failed bombing is the same suspect in a vandalism incident from February involving an ISIS flag and graffiti at Hurricane High School.

The suspect has been arrested and charged with “manufacture, possession, sale, use or attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction prohibited,” according to police.

Police told us the flag desecration at Hurricane High was just an act by “vandals”. That was false, just as we suspected. The ISIS promoting student not only admitted doing that, but also admitted spray painting “ISIS IS COMI” as well.

Thankfully his homemade bomb didn’t go off and no lives were lost. And this terrorist-wannabe perp was taken into custody.


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