{"id":217142,"date":"2026-04-03T06:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217142\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:49:32","slug":"heavy-police-presence-spotted-near-3-miami-dade-schools-after-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217142\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy police presence spotted near 3 Miami-Dade schools after \u2018threat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 1, 2026 at 10:12 AM<\/p>\n<p>Threat leads to 2 Miami schools being placed on lockdown Scores of police officers were spotted Wednesday morning near three schools in Miami-Dade County.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Scores of police officers were spotted Wednesday morning near three schools in Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/01\/fuerte-presencia-policial-cerca-de-tres-escuelas-en-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/01\/fuerte-presencia-policial-cerca-de-tres-escuelas-en-miami-dade\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The area near Kinloch Park Middle School, located at 4340 NW Third St., and Kinloch Park Elementary, located at 4275 NW First St., was blocked off by police as parents drove to the area to find out what was going on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies and MDSP officers were also spotted near West Miami Middle School, located at 7525 Coral Way. <\/p>\n<p>Heavy police presence spotted around 2 Miami schools  Scores of police officers were spotted Wednesday morning near two schools in Miami. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere was a bomb threat in the middle school and we needed to go in the bathroom. We needed to lock the door and go in the bathroom. And our teacher told us to be quiet and to not go outside,\u201d a Kinloch Elementary School student said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10\u2019s Linnie Supall was told the threat was made to just \u201cKinloch,\u201d so both schools were placed on lockdown as a precaution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Some parents told Local 10 News that they arrived at the schools around 9:30 a.m., emotions running high as they waited for answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe got a phone call from the school announcing that there was a threat,\u201d parent Stephy Noda said. \u201cWhen I walked out of my house I saw all the helicopters circling, so I had to run. Most of the parents you see ran from their houses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News is awaiting more information from authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Linnie Supall\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/CANLLYSXDJBXDMDOXMBEIDTX.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Linnie Supall<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Linnie Supall is an Emmy nominated and award-winning journalist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 1, 2026 at 10:12 AM Threat leads to 2 Miami schools being placed on lockdown Scores of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-217142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}