THOUSAND OAKS : Reward Offered in Arson at School
Authorities have offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of an arsonist who lit a fire that damaged a coach’s office and the boys’ locker room at Colina Intermediate School in Thousand Oaks last month.
“Usually you get a lot of rumors flying around a school,” Ventura County Sheriff’s Sgt. Kitty Hoberg said. “But we haven’t heard anything, which leads us to believe somebody outside the school did it.”
The arsonist climbed onto the roof of the locker room and dropped lit material through an open skylight over the three-day holiday weekend that started Jan. 13. The office was gutted before the fire burned itself out, Hoberg said.
Officials discovered the damage when they returned to school Jan. 17.
Deputies found graffiti scrawled on an adjacent building but are unsure if there is a connection to the blaze.
School officials did not return telephone calls. At the time of the fire, officials estimated damage at $6,000.
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