Police: Teens Planned to Bomb School, Steal Plane
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(Image Credit: Weber County Sheriff's Office)
School resumed as normal today at Roy High School in Roy, Utah, only one day after police arrested two students who were allegedly planning to bomb their school assembly and make their getaway in a stolen plane.
Dallin Morgan, 18, and Joshua Hogan, 16, were arrested Wednesday after a female student received a troubling text message from one of the suspects.
“It was a text she felt was a threat and a danger and so she immediately went to the administration,” Roy Police Department spokeswoman Anna Bond told ABCNews.com. Bond declined to reveal what the text message said because of the ongoing investigation.
Administrators contacted police, who executed four search warrants on the students’ homes and vehicles, and conducted a thorough sweep of the school.
No explosives turned up during the search,” Bond said. “However, investigators found “maps of the school and information about security systems had been prepared with plans for an escape using a plane from the Ogden Hinckley Airport.
“We know for certain they had been planning this for at least three months,” she said.
Authorities also discovered the two boys had trained on flight simulation software in preparation for their getaway.
The FBI and its Regional Forensics Computer Laboratory will assist in analyzing any confiscated computers, but declined to comment on the case in a statement.
Morgan, who is an adult, is being held at the Weber County Jail. Hogan is being held at the Weber County Detention Center.
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Looking at the map of the United States, Colorado is right next to Utah. I think we heard a similiar story about 13 years ago, when two kids from a school in Colorado shot their classmates and attempted to set off explosives at the school. It must be something in the water in that area of the country.
Posted by: Ricky | January 26, 2012, 7:57 pm 7:57 pm
Just look at the picture, this one just looks crazy.
Posted by: Robert Williamson | January 26, 2012, 8:07 pm 8:07 pm
Idiots
Posted by: Joe | January 26, 2012, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm
Would like to know why teens wanted to bomb school. Anyone else believe American teens are getting ideas to bomb from Middle Eastern practice of the same?
Posted by: citizenval | January 26, 2012, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm
Rise young men and women of the worl and reclaim our lost freedoms.
Posted by: Bryon | January 26, 2012, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm
crrrrreeeeepy
Posted by: Cassandra | January 26, 2012, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm
I can’t belive this, I’m from Ecuador and I can tell you one thing there has never happend something like that, what makes kid wana hurt there classmate because is clear that they don’t think of them as friends…. When they become so cruel…. This is a very important matter for the goverment to fiand out the real reasons of why this happend so often in the states…. when things like this happend so often its not only the kids but there most be something wrong in the educational sistem…. To put them in to jail it won’t solve the problem… Some other will come later…. So are you ever gonna only deal with the simpton or are you really start dealing with the disease… How come that to aprove SOPA they did it so fast but it seems they don’t really care about this matter??…
Posted by: Fernando | January 26, 2012, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm
It’s not the edumacational system. It’s the society.
Posted by: mobredthree | January 26, 2012, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm
One more proof that Indians are not terrorist!!
Posted by: Abi | January 27, 2012, 5:47 am 5:47 am
This doesn’t surprise me coming out of Utah. Especially in Weber County.
Posted by: GoGamer | January 27, 2012, 8:11 am 8:11 am
I am currently s student at Roy High and I am here to speak for the Students of Roy High. Just because two students out of about 1500 were planning this does NOT mean that the rest of us are wrong in the head. On quite a few of these news stations I have seen you people make rude comments or remarks towards Utahns in general. Roy High has really awesome students who thrive to do their best in school and try to outshine one another with grades. We at Roy High still have the utmost respect for our school. This is just a minor setback for Roy High. We will get throught this, we always do. I am proud to say that I am a Royal student from Roy High. “This is ‘R’ Town!”
Posted by: Anon | January 28, 2012, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm
I saw the Good Morning America video clip of this story. I am appalled. Why has this story gotten more press than CONVICTED murderers, pedophiles, or rapists? These boys have been charged with an ALLEGED crime, not convicted. They are entitled to due process of law. Unfortunately, while that process is taking place their lives and the lives of their families are being ruined by the media. Someone should do a study on the accuracy of stories presented by the media.
I certainly hope if/when one or both of these boys are acquitted you spend as much time and money on a story to clear their names as was spent to defame it.
Posted by: Civil Liberty | January 29, 2012, 6:11 pm 6:11 pm
Take a plane….and go where?! Flight simulation software….what games on their xbox!? This is sad and pathetic and those kids are nuts and stupid at the same time!
Posted by: Court | February 9, 2012, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm
I was in the Weber Valley Detention Center with Joshua for about a week, honestly, he isn’t really a bad kid. He is very intelligent, and just a nice guy in general. But he seemed like someone who was picked on in school possibly because he was a little larger then most. I saw him multiple times in tears with his parents when he met with them every night at 6:00. I really hope they don’t punish him as an adult, i think a little while in youth solitary confinement would help him much better then the 25 to life in prison that he is looking at.
Posted by: Trevor | February 14, 2012, 10:35 am 10:35 am