{"id":157997,"date":"2022-09-15T14:17:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=157997"},"modified":"2022-09-16T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:04:53","slug":"update-on-van-wert-ms-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/update-on-van-wert-ms-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Update given on alleged VWMS incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert City Schools Superintendent Mark Bagley has shared more information on Wednesday\u2019s situation at Van Wert Middle School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An alleged threat of violence and rumors of a gun prompted a heavy law enforcement presence and a search of the school shortly after 2 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere was never a weapon found and we\u2019re still investigating the source but we do not have any names,\u201d Bagley said. \u201cOnce we contacted law enforcement they came immediately, within 2-3 minutes. Because recent events in our country even though we didn\u2019t have direct information about a specific threat, we thought it was necessary for the police to know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to thank the Van Wert Police Department, the Sheriff\u2019s Department and all of the agencies that worked together,\u201d Bagley added. \u201cThe bottom line is through this whole process, kids were safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor Van Wert City Schools Superintendent Mark Bagley has shared more information on Wednesday\u2019s situation at Van Wert Middle School. An alleged threat of violence and rumors of a gun prompted a heavy law enforcement presence and a search of the school shortly after 2 p.m. \u201cThere was never a weapon found and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 18:05:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158033,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157997\/revisions\/158033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}