{"id":254421,"date":"2026-05-01T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254421\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:03:07","slug":"schools-in-north-central-florida-locked-down-due-to-unconfirmed-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254421\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools in North Central Florida locked down due to unconfirmed threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BELL, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Several schools in North Central Florida were placed on lockdown Friday afternoon due to unconfirmed threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All Gilchrist County public schools were placed on a lockdown due to a threat to shoot up Bell High School; however, it was unfounded, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Marion County, an anonymous bomb threat was made to Westport High School. Officers searched the school, and students were placed on Code Red lockdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELL, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Several schools in North Central Florida were placed on lockdown Friday afternoon due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[110786,28,30,29,110785,100763,110787],"class_list":["post-254421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-bell-high-school","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gilchrist-county-public-schools","tag-school-lockdown","tag-westport-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254421","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=254421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}