{"id":487635,"date":"2026-02-18T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487635\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:39:09","slug":"man-arrested-after-bomb-scare-beside-two-melbourne-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487635\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after bomb scare beside two Melbourne schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bomb response unit assessed the man&#8217;s backpack and no suspicious devices were found.<\/p>\n<p>A nearby primary school, St Mary&#8217;s Primary School, and a secondary school were placed into lockdown as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p>A 45-year-old man was arrested on Westbury Street and is expected to be interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for St Mary&#8217;s Primary School said &#8220;appropriate precautions were enacted at 2.40pm while Victoria Police detained a person in close proximity to the school&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Students continued their lessons and were dismissed at the usual time of 3.30pm,&#8221; the spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The alleged offender did not enter the grounds of the primary school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bomb response unit assessed the man&#8217;s backpack and no suspicious devices were found. A nearby primary school,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-487635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487635","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=487635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}