Glen Rock School Locked Down Thursday During Police Pursuit, Report Says

Central School in Glen Rock was locked down Thursday afternoon while police pursued a man whom they thought was armed, a report by The Record states.

Police advised school officials at 2:12 p.m. that they were pursuing a man they thought was armed with a box cutter, district spokeswoman Andrea Tahinos told the paper; police asked that the school go into a “shelter-in-place” lockdown where the school is secured from the outside by classes are allowed to continue.

The lockdown was lifted at 2:25 p.m. and the man was arrested, but police did not find a weapon on him, the report states.

Police were questioning the man Thursday afternoon and did not immediately release his identity, the report states.