Independence Middle School was on lockdown while police investigated a potential threat<\/p>\n
BETHEL PARK, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n
Independence Middle School was placed on lockdown Monday after an anonymous tip reported that a student may have brought a weapon to the building, school officials said.<\/p>\n
Bethel Park School District officials said the tip came through the Safe to Say reporting system.<\/p>\n
Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n “The Bethel Park School District Police, Bethel Park Police Department, Allegheny County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and City of Pittsburgh Police Department investigated the tip, and a K9 unit searched the building. No weapon was found, and the threat has been deemed non-credible,” school officials said in an updated statement Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n The lockdown has been lifted, and an investigation is continuing, school officials said.<\/p>\n District officials said Bethel Park High School was also placed under a “soft lockdown,” with no one permitted to enter or exit, but those restrictions have also been lifted.<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates.<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Independence Middle School was on lockdown while police investigated a potential threat BETHEL PARK, Pa. \u2014 Independence Middle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,110026,15363,130005,1510,130003,26771,8377,2092,2008,73,75,74,130004,87,6985,130006,6989,10254],"class_list":["post-319743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action-news","tag-anonymous-tip","tag-bethel-park","tag-bethel-park-school","tag-family","tag-independence-middle-school","tag-lockdown","tag-more-information","tag-more-news","tag-office","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-possible-weapon","tag-report","tag-statement","tag-superintendent-matthew-patterson","tag-update","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319743","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=319743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}