SAN JOSE — A San Jose State University student has been arrested and charged with arson on allegations he set two trash can fires about a week apart inside the campus library, according to authorities and court records.
The college sophomore was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Elmwood men’s jail on suspicion of four counts of arson, and was initially held in lieu of $400,000 bail, jail records show.
Cal Fire, which dispatched its Office of the State Fire Marshal to investigate the fires alongside university police, announced the arrest Friday.
The state firefighting agency issued a bulletin Tuesday — the day before the arrest — seeking public help identifying a person recorded by a security camera entering a restroom inside the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library around the time of the first reported fire on March 31.