{"id":35022,"date":"2018-06-04T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/temporary-lockdown-lifted-at-kentwood-high-after-vague-threat-on-social-media\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T11:26:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T18:26:37","slug":"temporary-lockdown-lifted-at-kentwood-high-after-vague-threat-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/temporary-lockdown-lifted-at-kentwood-high-after-vague-threat-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary lockdown lifted at Kentwood High after &#8216;vague threat&#8217; on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School and police officials placed <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/H32TniMfKAr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\">Kentwood High in Covington<\/a> on a 22-minute lockdown Monday morning as part of an investigation into a &ldquo;vague threat&rdquo; on social media.<\/p>\n<p>All students and staff are safe, according to a school district website post by Timothy Kovich, safety services supervisor for the district.<\/p>\n<p>Police took into custody a student possibly in possession of a weapon but no weapon was found. The lockdown began at 9:25 a.m. and ended at 9:47 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This (Monday) morning our team was informed of a vague threat aimed at Kent School District on social media,&rdquo; according to the district website post. &ldquo;Our staff is working in cooperation with the Kent Police Department to investigate this threat. The threat was non-specific and did not name specific schools or individuals. The school district, in conjunction with law enforcement, began taking every preliminary precaution possible and continues to investigate this posting.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kent Police, Covington Police and the King County Sheriff&rsquo;s Office investigated the threat which led to the lockdown at Kentwood, 25800 164th Ave. SE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All students, staff safe <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":35023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-35022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35022"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=35022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}