A teen who is among five people accused in last month’s explosion at Piero’s Italian Cuisine confessed to “the entire operation,” prosecutors said Thursday.

Joseph Gutierrez, 18, was arrested Friday in Arizona and faces multiple arson-related charges after a pipe bomb hidden inside a gas can was placed outside the restaurant on Nov. 13.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Eckley Keach also said that a boy, identified as the fifth suspect, has been arrested.

A grand jury previously indicted Gutierrez’s mother, Sarah Hernandez, 34, along with John Navarro, 35, and Phillip Gonzales, 54. They were indicted a week after the blast on charges that include manufacturing or possessing an explosive or incendiary device, first-degree arson, and conspiracy to commit first-degree arson.

Keach only ident

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