{"id":288249,"date":"2026-09-17T16:28:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288249\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:28:43","slug":"lockdown-at-william-allen-high-school-lifted-after-report-of-student-with-weapon-turned-out-to-be-unfounded-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288249\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown at William Allen High School lifted after report of student with weapon turned out to be unfounded | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A lockdown is lifted at William Allen High School after police responded to a report that a student may have been in possession of a weapon on their way to school.<\/p>\n

Parents were informed about the incident Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

A lockdown was quickly put in place while Allentown police searched the school.<\/p>\n

The report of a weapon turned out to be unfounded, and the lockdown was lifted a short time later.<\/p>\n

In a message to families, the Allentown School District said classes have resumed.<\/p>\n

The Allentown Police Department, school, and administration worked collaboratively to conduct a thorough investigation, the district said.<\/p>\n

The district is reminding people that during lockdowns or lockdown drills, no one is permitted to enter or exit the school.<\/p>\n

The district encourages anyone with safety concerns to use the District\u2019s Anonymous Tip Line at 1-844-SAF2SAY or safe2saypa.org<\/a> (available 24\/7). In emergencies, please call 911 immediately.<\/p>\n

Every tip is thoroughly investigated, and students are urged to report credible or suspected threats with as much detail as possible, the district said.<\/p>\n

The district says it is a felony in Pennsylvania to report false information to law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A lockdown is lifted at William Allen High School after police responded to a report…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2602,719,26771,10011,38569,10208],"class_list":["post-288249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-police-department","tag-allentown-school-district","tag-lockdown","tag-school-safety","tag-weapon","tag-william-allen-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}