School bomb plot foiled

POLICE in Florida have thwarted a pupil’s “catastrophic” plot to blow up a school on the first day of classes.

Tampa police chief Jane Castor said Jared Cano, a 17-year-old expelled pupil, had threatened to plant a device at Freedom High School.

Officers found a journal and materials to make pipe bombs, including a fuel source, shrapnel, plastic tubing and timing and fusing devices.

They also found a marijuana growing operation.

He faces felony charges of possessing bomb- making materials, cultivating marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and threatening to discharge a destructive device.