A Georgia Southern University student was charged with arson Thursday after investigations led to evidence she set fire to trash cans on campus.
Jamya LeeAnn Cooper, 20, was arrested Thursday afternoon “following a week-long investigation into a series of fires in building trash cans on the Statesboro (GS) campus,” said Jennifer Wise, GS director of communications.
Cooper, a junior majoring in education, faces six counts of first-degree arson. According to Bulloch County Jail records, she was still in jail Friday afternoon, with a $25,000 bond.
Later the same day, police received another call about items that had been burned in two other trash cans in the same building. Additional calls for trash can fires in a women's restroom in the Math/Physics building came in on Nov. 14, Nov. 19 and Nov. 21, she said.
The Statesboro Fire Department and the university fire marshal assisted in the investigation, she said.