METRO DIGEST || Firecracker on school bus

Firecracker on bus

CAMPBELL

Police briefly detained a student Tuesday afternoon after he set off a firecracker on a school bus. Officers responded to a call from a bus driver at about 3 p.m. The driver pulled to over on Sixth Street to report a possible explosion and unusual, odor police Chief Drew Rauzan said. Police determined a 12-year-old male student had set it off. The student was questioned, then released to his parents. Police will not pursue charges, Rauzan said. The schools will handle discipline.

2 stabbings at complex

WARREN

Police say they don’t know yet whether two stabbings near the same West Side apartment complex in three days were committed by the same man. The first was at 8 p.m. Saturday on a path near the Avon Oaks apartments on Southern Boulevard Southwest in which a man, 48, suffered a stab wound of the arm and was hit in the back of the head by a man about 5 feet 10 inches tall, 200 pounds wearing a white hooded sweatshirt, blue jogging pants and gray baseball hat. At 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, a security guard there received a minor injury when he discovered a man on the first floor who didn’t live there. The suspect lunged at the guard with a knife, causing a minor injury to his arm. The suspect then punched the guard in the face and ran away. He was about 6 feet 2 inches tall, 160 pounds with a short haircut, wearing a black shirt and gray sweatpants.

Stolen credit cards

NILES

City police arrested four suspects who they say tried to use stolen credit card information at Best Buy here, alerting police to what they were doing at 11:44 a.m., according to the department’s Facebook page. As an officer arrived, a van containing the suspects was leaving the store parking lot. He gave chase along U.S. Route 422 and the suspects began to throw out of the window what was more than 40 credit cards. Other police joined in the chase and the suspects, believed to be from the New York City area, were arrested. Charges are pending.

Written bomb threat

CHAMPION

Trumbull Career & Technical Center Superintendent Jason Gray was notified shortly after noon Tuesday of an apparent bomb threat discovered on a restroom wall. Students, faculty and others were quickly evacuated, accounted for, and held at a secure off-site location. They were then sent home via their routine means of transportation. An investigation is underway.