The Hayden School District went into a brief lockdown Monday afternoon due to an incident that occurred off-campus.

“There was a situation involving a hold, asking students to remain in the classroom, at about 2:50 p.m. At about 3 p.m., those conditions ended — about 3:05 p.m. an incident occurred off-site and local law enforcement recommended we move to a lockdown that lasted about 15 minutes,” Hayden Superintendent Eric Owen said Monday afternoon.

“There wasn’t any threat to anybody on-site here, and we were cleared by law enforcement to resume to business as usual at about 3:30 p.m.,” the superintendent added.

Hayden Police Chief Scott Scurlock said officers were alerted to a middle school student causing a disturbance within the school, leading to the school being placed on hold, before a parent came to pick up the student and took the student to a nearby residence.

“Then the child left the house, making some statements that caused the parent concern, so that was communicated back to the school and communicated with us, and just out of an abundance of caution, we had the school go into a lockdown,” said Scurlock.

“The student was quickly located and detained, and we are going through the process with that at this point,” the police chief said, adding that the student did not have a weapon on him when he was detained by officers.

Owen said no notification was given to parents as the lockdown occurred.

“We went straight to lockdown, and I am looking to communicate that right now,” said Owen just before 4 p.m. “Had it been more than 10-15 minutes we would have formulated communication, but it happened quickly.”

The superintendent also commented on a recently introduced cellphone policy, which requires personal devices to be placed in a storage caddy when students enter their classroom with notifications turned off. Owen said during a lockdown students are allowed to retrieve their storage caddies, and their cellphones are accessible.