Arizona student accused of poisoning librarian “because he was bored”

The Arizona Republic has a report on the 14-year-old Bagdad student has been placed in juvenile detention after squirting a hand sanitizer into a school librarian’s water bottle, Yavapai County authorities said Friday.

The librarian took a sip of the water Thursday and immediately was struck with a foul, acrid taste and a burning in her throat, said Susan Quayle, a spokeswoman for the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff’s deputies questioning the boy said he admitted pulling the prank “because he was bored” and called it “just horseplay”, said Susan Quayle, a sheriff’s spokeswoman.