Youth who lit Walmart aisle on fire sentenced to 18 months probation

A judge has sentenced a youth who set fire to a section of paper towel inside a Regina Walmart to 18 months probation.

The boy, who was 12 at the time, set fire to a bunch of paper towel inside the Rochdale Walmart on Dec. 11. The store was closed for over a month due to the incident, opening up again on Jan. 20.

It came out in his first court appearance that the boy is also accused of stealing a van and threatening to shoot up a north Regina elementary school.

Walmart donated 36,000 pounds of non-perishable food to the Regina Food Bank as a result of its temporary closure.