Arrest made in threat to Brandon high school
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BRANDON — The Brandon Police Service arrested a student on Monday after an alleged weapons threat at Neelin High School.
The Brandon School Division placed six schools in the area under a hold and secure as a precaution, BPS said in a news release.
Police were sent to the school at 12:51 p.m. and arrested a suspect about 28 minutes later at a residence several blocks away without incident, the release said.
Tim Smith / The Brandon Sun
A hold and secure procedure was implemented Monday at École Secondaire Neelin High School and five other Brandon schools.
Hold and secure measures were lifted once it was determined there was no ongoing threat to students, staff or the public.
Police said the matter is under investigation.
The Brandon School Division said along with Neelin, hold and secures were implemented at Meadows, George Fitton, École Harrison, Betty Gibson and Earl Oxford schools.
The division notified parents and guardians about the incident in an email during the afternoon.
Interviewed later in the day, division Supt. Mathew Gustafson said students told school staff of “the potential for another student to have access to weapons.”
Staff then reported that information to police.
“But out of an abundance of caution, we place schools in that geographic area into a hold and secure,” Gustafson said.
Gustafson said it’s his understanding that the suspect was a Neelin student.
He added there were no reports of injuries.
A hold and secure, during which a school operates normally but with no one able to enter or leave, doesn’t necessarily mean there’s an immediate threat, he said. Instead, it’s a response used when there’s a potential threat in the community.
The hold and secures at the schools were lifted at about 1:20 p.m., he said.
Monday’s threat comes after a sword attack at Neelin last June, which seriously injured one student. Police were able to find a suspect in that instance within seven minutes.
The accused in that incident, also a student, faces three counts of attempted murder.
— Brandon Sun