Monrovia’s Santa Fe Middle School receives bogus threat
School evacuated as precaution
Monrovia’s Santa Fe middle school was on lock-down Monday afternoon after a man called police and said he was on campus with an AK 47 firearm and allegedly spoke with a Middle East accent.
A male caller phoned the Monrovia Police Department at about 2 p.m., saying he was on the campus of Santa Fe Middle School with an AK-47 assault rifle according to Chief Jim Hunt.
Units from Monrovia, Sierra Madre and Arcadia assisted in the search for the suspect.
The school, at Duarte and Peck roads, was placed on lock down and classrooms were cleared one by one, and students allowed to leave on a convoy of school buses to reunite them with their anxious parents who had been waiting in a parking lot where the future Gold Line station will be.
After hours of units checking from room to room and numerous other police agencies assisting, no suspect was found and the threat deemed over and all road blocks cleared shortly after 6PM.
At Santa Fe Middle School, the last of the students was moved off campus just before 5 p.m
Santa Fe Middle School had about 640 students in grades six through eight in the 2012-13 school year, according to state records.
