{"id":473970,"date":"2026-10-23T00:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473970\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T00:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:38:26","slug":"bomb-threat-at-dallas-college-el-centro-was-false-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473970\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb threat at Dallas College El Centro was false alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascollege.edu\/locations\/el-centro\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas College&#8217;s El Centro<\/a> campus was evacuated Thursday morning after a reported bomb threat that police later said was a false alarm.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded around 8:30 a.m. to the downtown campus in the 800 block of Main Street, police spokesman Corbin Rubinson said.<\/p>\n<p>The high school operates at the El Centro campus through a partnership between Dallas College and Dallas ISD.<\/p>\n<p>Students began receiving emergency alerts from Dallas College shortly before 9 a.m., warning them not to enter or leave buildings on campus. Those who weren&#8217;t on campus were told to stay away.<\/p>\n<p>College students Alika Martinez and Ely Raaimez, both 18, were in class taking a test when they were told to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just told us to go as far as we could,\u201d Raaimez told The Dallas Morning News.<\/p>\n<p>The two walked with a large group of Dallas ISD and college students until they reached an area near the Dallas County Historical Foundation building.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez said they waited about 30 minutes before receiving another alert announcing the emergency was over.<\/p>\n<p>Rubinson said officers were helping search the campus as a precaution. Police later said a preliminary investigation determined that the information provided about the threat was unfounded.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas College also sent an all-clear alert to students, and an announcement that the emergency was over could be heard over speakers near the campus.<\/p>\n<p>The police response disrupted traffic downtown, but Main, North Lamar, Elm and North Market streets have since reopened, police said. Students and staff have\u00a0returned to campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas College&#8217;s El Centro campus was evacuated Thursday morning after a reported bomb threat that police later said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,88574,87998,89139,89398],"class_list":["post-473970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-downtown-dallas","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-police","tag-tp-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}