VAN NUYS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- One person was detained by police after an online threat to a Van Nuys high school prompted a campus-wide lockdown Monday morning.
Los Angeles police said Grant High School, located in the 1300 block of Oxnard Street, was placed on lockdown as a precaution shortly before 7:30 a.m., when police received word of the threat.
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Information was not immediately available on the gender of the person being questioned or whether the person was a student.
The school was on lockdown for several hours as authorities worked to determine if the nature of the threat was credible. The lockdown was later lifted.
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The incident was being investigated as a possible hoax, according to police.
City News Service contributed to this report.