4 Students Accused Of Burning Down Principal's Home After Being Suspended

PAYETTE, Idaho (AP/CBSNewYork)-- Idaho police believe four teenage boys set their high school principal's home on fire as revenge for being suspended.

Payette Police Chief Mark Clark told the Idaho Statesman on Tuesday that he asked a judge to issue warrants for the arrest of three high-schoolers and one middle-schooler.

Clark says investigators were led to the suspects after the students posting to social media bragging about the damage.

The Feb. 22 blaze destroyed Payette High School principal Mark Heleker's home and three cars parked in the driveway. His family and pets escaped the fire that started in a trash can outside the garage.

"It is the most helpless feeling," Heleker told a local station. "It's like something you see in a movie that you don't think will ever happen to you."

Heleker says he knows the older boys but not the younger student. He's a former mayor of the city of 7,500 people about 60 miles northwest of Boise.

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