Categories: Kentucky News

2 students arrested ‘unrelated’ to weapon scare that initiated Perry County lockdown

HAZARD, Ky. (FOX 56) — Perry County Central High School (PCC) initiated lockdown protocol on Friday morning after recieving word that a student may have brought a weapon to school.

The original announcement was posted on Facebook around noon on Sept. 12 by the Perry County School District. Officials later explained that the lockdown had been issued when a student reported “the possibility of another student having a weapon” to administrators.

Sponsored

Perry County district staff emphasized that students were safe and the lockdown was lifted around 1:20 p.m.

LATEST KENTUCKY NEWS:

“First responders were on the scene within minutes, and were able to take charge of identifying, questioning, and searching students involved. No weapon was found. Two students being questioned were arrested for charges not related to the threat,” the district wrote.

Its unlcear what led to the arrest of the two students

Members of the district announced that an ambulance had been called for a PCC student, but claimed it was unrelated to the lockdown.

Sponsored

The high school has resumed its regular schedule.

If you are aware of any unsafe situation involving Perry County schools, please report it here.

Madylin Goins contributed to this story.

rssfeeds-admin

Share
Published by
rssfeeds-admin

Recent Posts

APT28 Exploits MSHTML Zero-Day Ahead of February 2026 Patch Tuesday

Microsoft’s February 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 59 flaws, but CVE-2026-21513 in the MSHTML framework stole…

27 minutes ago

PoC Exploit Released for Microsoft Windows Error Reporting ALPC Privilege Escalation

A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been publicly released for CVE-2026-20817, a local privilege escalation vulnerability…

27 minutes ago

Dohdoor Malware Targets U.S. Schools and Healthcare In Multi-Stage Campaign

Researchers at Cisco Talos have uncovered an ongoing cyber campaign delivering a previously undocumented backdoor…

27 minutes ago

Compromised Go Crypto Package Delivers Rekoobe Malware To Dev Systems

Researchers from Socket have uncovered a malicious Go module that impersonates the widely trusted golang.org/x/crypto…

28 minutes ago

DuckDuckGo Browser UXSS Flaw in AutoConsent JS Bridge Enables Cross-Origin Code Execution

A serious vulnerability in the DuckDuckGo Android browser allows cross-origin iframes to execute arbitrary JavaScript…

28 minutes ago

OneUptime Command Injection Flaw Enables Full Server Takeover

A critical command injection vulnerability in OneUptime, a popular platform for monitoring online services, lets…

28 minutes ago

This website uses cookies.