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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to his room at a luxury hotel in downtown Salt Lake City.
Fire officials say 19-year-old Francisco Castillo told investigators he had smoked marijuana on Thursday night and decided to set his Little America Hotel room on fire early Friday. He said he was staying alone in the room.
Weber County sheriff's deputies took Castillo into custody Friday night at his home in West Haven. He was booked into jail for investigation of first-degree arson.
More than 100 guests were forced to evacuate their rooms, but no injuries were reported.
Officials say they received multiple reports of smoke coming from a room in the hotel's west wing, and firefighters contained the blaze to the room.
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