NEW PRAGUE, Minn. (AP Mar 21, 2013) – Students who returned to school in New Prague following a fake call about a shooting have been evacuated again because of a bomb threat.
 
     The school district’s website says middle school students were sent to the ice arena after the threat was made Thursday morning, just a day after someone called 911 to report a shooter on campus with an assault rifle. Authorities determined that call was a hoax, but not before hundreds of students were locked in their classrooms while dozens of law enforcement officers searched the multi-building campus. A 12-year-old boy was arrested.
 
     The school district says students returned to class Thursday after police gave the OK.

Previously

NEW PRAGUE, Minn. (APMar 20, 2013) – Authorities in Minnesota have arrested a 12-year-old boy in what they say was a prank call that prompted a school lockdown.
 
     The middle school in New Prague, a small town about 45 miles southwest of Minneapolis, was locked down after the 911 call came in about 8 a.m. Wednesday.
 
     Scott County Sheriff Kevin Studnicka says the caller claimed there was a person armed with an AK-47 in a school building, and that a few people had been shot.
 
     New Prague Police Chief Mark Vosejpka (voh-SAYP’-kuh) says police determined there was no threat within about half an hour, and quickly zeroed in on the 12-year-old. He didn’t say what led authorities to the boy.
 
     The school canceled classes for the rest of the day but students are expected to return Thursday.

 

Reported earlier…

NEW PRAGUE, Minn. (AP Mar 20, 2013) – A sheriff says a 911 call about an active shooter at a school in southern Minnesota appears to be a hoax.
 
     Scott County Sheriff Kevin Studnicka says students and staff at the middle school, high school and Central Education Campus buildings in New Prague are all safe.
 
     Studnicka says a man called 911, asked for help, hung up, then called back and claimed a shooter with an AK47 assault rifle was in a school building. He says the caller claimed there were a couple of victims. The call prompted a lockdown.
 
     The sheriff says there is no evidence of a shooter and no one is hurt.
 
     New Prague is about 45 miles southwest of Minneapolis. The middle and high schools have a combined enrollment of 2,067.

Reported earlier…

NEW PRAGUE, Minn. (AP Mar 20, 2013) – A Minnesota middle school secretary says all students and staff are safe in a lockdown at the school.
 
     New Prague Middle School executive assistant Lana Knoke tells The Associated Press that the lockdown that began Wednesday morning continues. She says police are still checking the school.
 
     Knoke says students remain in locked classrooms.
 
     New Prague is about 45 miles southwest of Minneapolis. The middle school has about 875 students in grades 6-8.