{"id":23726,"date":"2014-10-30T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=23726"},"modified":"2014-10-30T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:16:50","slug":"kennett-middle-school-locked-down-over-rifle-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=23726","title":{"rendered":"Kennett Middle School locked down over rifle round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Students kept in classrooms Wed. as police investigate<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Mike McGann<\/strong>, <em>Editor, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KMS-300x272.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-970488\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"KMS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KMS-300x272.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a>NEW GARDEN \u2014 Kennett Middle School was placed in a \u201csoft\u201d lock down Wednesday after a live rifle round was found in a classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Township police said that the round was discovered Tuesday evening in a sixth grade classroom by the school\u2019s janitorial service.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the school the next morning and the building was placed on a \u201csoft\u201d lockdown \u2014 students were kept in classrooms for their first period class, and students were required to put their backpacks in the hallway. The lockdown continued through at least fourth period, as police and search dogs combed the school looking for additional ammunition, and more information about the single round found in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Police interviewed the teacher as well as the students in the sixth grade classroom who sat near where the rifle round was discovered. After completion of the interviews, police said they think it is \u201chighly probable the object arrived in the room accidentally by a person who may not been aware of the transference,\u201d according to a police statement issued Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police also said they do not think that this incident is related to the ongoing issue with bomb scares in district schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students kept in classrooms Wed. as police investigate By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times NEW GARDEN \u2014 Kennett Middle School was placed in a \u201csoft\u201d lock down Wednesday after a live rifle round was found in a classroom. Township police said that the round was discovered Tuesday evening in a sixth grade classroom by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[3283,6333,6332],"class_list":["post-23726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-kennett-middle-school","tag-lockdown","tag-new-garden-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}