UPDATE: Lockdown at Pinkerton Academy Lifted

DERRY, NH — Pinkerton Academy in Derry was placed in lockdown on Feb. 3, 2017, after police were called to the school for a possible threat on the campus. Specifically, according to a press statement from Chief Edward Garone of the Derry Police Department and Griffin Morse, the school's headmaster, "a student had allegedly stated that he had a firearm and planned to shoot someone."

School administrators placed the school into "a campus-wide lockdown" while police responded. Officers located the suspect, a student at the school, but investigators determined that there was no firearm and no legitimate threat to safety at the school.

The juvenile, however, was arrested for causing a threat, and transported to police headquarters, and lockdown was lifted.

An automated message was sent to parents about the threat and a second alert was sent to parents after the lockdown was lifted.

The independent high school serves students from Auburn, Chester, Derry, Hampstead, and Hooksett. The incident comes just slightly more than 24 hours after numerous bomb – and other threats – were phoned in to schools in Bow, Bedford, and Exeter, as well as a fake gun incident in Hooksett on Feb. 2, 2017.