Northfield Hospital Locked Down for Two Hours on Sunday

Northfield Hospital was placed on lockdown early Sunday afternoon after a threat was called to the Emergency Department.

The Pioneer Press says the hospital was locked down from about 12:30 p.m. until 2:20, when a 24-year-old man from Biwabik, MN, was arrested at a relative's home in Farmington.

Mary Quinn Crow, the hospital's interim president and CEO, told the Pioneer Press that people entering and exiting the hospital during that time were escorted.

Northfield's interim police chief, Chuck Walerius, told the Pioneer Press the suspect "apparently was upset over treatment that was denied or administered to him" when he was a patient at the hospital on Friday. He allegedly called in a threat to the emergency room and the doctors who treated him.

Farmington police arrested the suspect and placed him on 72-hour hold, Walerius said.