A safety guard was once charged Monday with beginning fires and calling in a bomb danger on the Cottonwood Heights industry advanced she was once employed to give protection to. (Annie Barker, Deseret Information)
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COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — A safety guard for a industry advanced in Cottonwood Heights was once charged Monday with beginning a sequence of small fires and creating a bomb danger on the industry she was once employed to give protection to.
Brittany Marie Burson, 22, of West Jordan, is charged in third District Court docket with 4 counts of annoyed arson, a first-degree criminal, and creating a danger of terrorism, a second-degree criminal.
On March 2, Unified firefighters had been referred to as to Cottonwood Company Middle, 2825 E. Cottonwood Limited-access highway, on a record of bomb danger. The industry advanced is composed of 4 six-story constructions. Burson claimed she had gained a decision from a person on her non-public safety mobile phone, and he stated there was once a bomb in one of the crucial constructions, in step with charging paperwork. The construction was once evacuated as hearth crews investigated. No explosive units had been discovered.
On March 11, a hearth was once began within the ladies’s toilet in one of the crucial constructions. Burson advised a hearth investigator who spoke back to the scene {that a} rubbish can was once lit on hearth, the fees state. Whilst nonetheless on scene, the valuables managers advised police they discovered the stays of a moment hearth that have been set in a vacant a part of some other construction.
On March 17, two extra fires on the advanced had been reported in males’s toilets on other flooring. Day after today, a hearth was once reported in a ladies’s toilet that was once began in a trash can and unfold to the wall.
As investigators endured to seem into all of the occasions, they found out that the bomb danger referred to as to the non-public safety telephone was once constructed from Burson’s private mobile phone, the fees allege.
“Additional, a seek of Burson’s Google historical past published that she searched to look if limited telephone numbers might be found out and about flamable fabrics for beginning fires,” in step with the fees.
When puzzled via investigators, Burson admitted to calling within the bomb danger however denied beginning the fires, despite the fact that she “did admit to being within the space” when every hearth began, the fees say.
She was once arrested after being interviewed. Prosecutors have asked she be held within the Salt Lake County Prison with out bail pending trial.
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