Students Arrested in Bomb Blast
Two 16-year-old high school students were arrested after they made and exploded a pipe bomb in the student parking lot at Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, officials said Saturday.
No one was injured in the blast, which occurred shortly after noon Friday, said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Gus Rusinger.
Rusinger said deputies were summoned to the school after campus officials heard the noise caused by the bomb. One of the boys was arrested after the deputies found him carrying a pipe bomb, he said.
The youth then told deputies that a friend at nearby Littlerock High School helped him make the bomb, Rusinger said.
Deputies went to the school and found the other boy, who had three bombs, he said.
The sheriff’s bomb squad disposed of the devices.
Following their arrests, the two youths were released to the custody of their parents, Rusinger said.
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