MARIETTA - A 15-year-old Pope High School dropout has been arrested for throwing firebombs at the school. <br>
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The boy, whose age prevents police from releasing his name, was arrested Thursday. <br>
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He is charged with three counts of arson, 29 counts of possessing an explosive device, six counts of criminal damage to property and three counts of criminal trespass. <br>
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Cobb County police spokesman Brody Staud says additional charges are possible. <br>
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A burned car and 17 Molotov cocktails -- bottles filled with gasoline and stuffed with rags, then ignited and hurled as a grenade -- were found on the Pope campus August 11, the first day of school. <br>
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The incendiary devices were found around a portable classroom, on the roof of the school and near a torched car in a campus parking lot. Some found on the roof ignited but did not cause significant damage.
