{"id":266476,"date":"2025-11-06T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266476\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:17:09","slug":"individual-with-mental-health-warrant-apprehended-in-luzerne-co-school-lockdowns-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266476\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual with mental health warrant apprehended in Luzerne Co.: School Lockdowns lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. (WOLF) \u2014 The Pennsylvania State Police along with the Wyoming Area Regional Police Department apprehended an individual with a mental health warrant that caused area schools to go on lockdown<\/p>\n<p> The individual, who had been traveling across multiple municipalities in Luzerne County, including Lehman Township, was taken into custody. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier Wednesday, PSP released a missing person advisory about the suspect around 1:45 pm. Troopers announced the individual was in custody just after 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>Several school districts within Luzerne County were placed on lockdown out of an abundance of caution since a \u201cperceived threat\u201d about firearms had been related to the individual police were searching for, according to Luzerne County District Attorney Sam Sangueldolce who spoke with our newsgathering partners at the Times Leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, we don\u2019t believe the threat was directed particularly at any school district or school at all. The threat was reportedly made in the vicinity of a certain school,\u201d Sanguedolce said.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:  <a href=\"https:\/\/fox56.com\/news\/local\/wyoming-valley-west-schools-on-lockdown-due-to-external-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wyoming Valley West schools on lockdown due to external threat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>No further details have been released on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. (WOLF) \u2014 The Pennsylvania State Police along with the Wyoming Area Regional Police Department apprehended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-266476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}