It’s finals week for a lot of college students and many are looking for ways to get an edge. An attempt to steal an exam using a ‘Mission Impossible’ stunt ended with a felony charge for two UK students.
University of Kentucky spokesperson Jay Blanton said that it happened after midnight on Wednesday when a statistics instructor was pulling an all-nighter. When he returned to his office in the multidisciplinary science building, he found the door was barricaded by something.
“He figured out that it was someone, actually. So he yelled out that he was going to call the police, at that time the door swung open, and two young men allegedly ran out and ran away,” Blanton said.
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Police say shortly after, one student, Henry Lynch, returned to talk to police and confessed to breaking into the building. He told officers that he climbed through the building’s air ducts and dropped into the teacher’s third-floor office. He says he then let another student, who he identified as Troy Kiphuth, inside.
Lynch also said it wasn’t the first time he had tried to steal and exam.
“And then also reported that earlier in the semester, he had successfully stolen an exam, and didn’t share it with others he said,” Blanton told LEX 18.
Lynch and Kiphuth are charged with felony burglary and their cases are headed to the Office of Student Conduct.
“If it comes down to me coming through an air duct, I’ll just take the F,” said UK student Royal Todd.
