Teen in Pine View High School Attempted Bombing Sentenced

A teen who admitted placing a device in a St. George high school cafeteria in hopes of injuring fellow students will serve 48 months intense supervised probation rather than time in prison.

A judge in St. George also gave 17-year-old Martin Farnsworth 250 hours of community service during a sentencing hearing yesterday.

Farnsworth pled guilty last month to a charge of attempting to cause injury with an incendiary device, admitting he put a backpack with an explosive device in the Pine View High School cafeteria last year.

The device did not explode and the cafeteria was evacuated after the smoking backpack was found.

Farnsworth reportedly told investigators he would have been fine if the device had injured or killed other students.