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Bluffs High School on a brief lockdown Thu. morning

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April 22nd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

A school in Council Bluffs was on a brief lock-down late this (Thursday) morning. The Daily NonPareil reports Council Bluffs Police were called to the Thomas Jefferson High School at around 11:45-a.m., upon reports of a man allegedly brandishing a knife outside the school. The unidentified suspect was standing outside the school, on West Broadway, holding a knife.

Officers on the scene were able to apprehend the man. The school was on lockdown for less than five minutes during the incident.

Additional information was not immediately available.