SVHS junior faces arson charge

by Crystal Gottfried A sixteen-year-old Smithson Valley High School junior turned himself in to authorities last Wednesday to face an arson charge in connection with a fire that destroyed a car parked at the school. Comal County Deputy Fire Marshal Wayne Ellington said that the youth had placed a smoke bomb inside a friend’s car as a prank. The boy was taken to the Guadalupe County Juvenile Detention Center where he was to have a hearing on Sept. 1.

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