Student Sentenced in Bomb Scare

OXNARD — A Channel Islands High School student who admitted placing phony bombs on campus three weeks after the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado has been ordered to serve six months in a county youth facility, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Pam Grossman said the 17-year-old was also placed on three years’ probation.

Juvenile Court Judge Steven Z. Perren also ordered the student to pay restitution to the Oxnard Union High School District, although the amount was not specified in court.

The boy’s accomplice, a 16-year-old sophomore who also admitted planting four fake bombs on and around campus May 11, is scheduled for sentencing later this month. Both students were immediately suspended. Their names have not been released.