{"id":16573,"date":"2025-09-11T20:38:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/students-evacuated-from-santa-fe-prep-in-wake-of-possible-bomb-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:58:37","slug":"students-evacuated-from-santa-fe-prep-in-wake-of-possible-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/students-evacuated-from-santa-fe-prep-in-wake-of-possible-bomb-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Students evacuated from Santa Fe Prep in wake of possible bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1334070f-240a-55d9-91ca-a4135cceb4bc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A bomb threat near Santa Fe Preparatory School on Thursday morning prompted an evacuation of students and a shelter-in-place order at nearby St. John\u2019s College, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>At 10:40 a.m., the Santa Fe Police Department received a report of a possible bomb threat in the 1000 block of Camino de Cruz Blanca, said Deputy Police Chief Ben Valdez.<\/p>\n<p>The threat near Santa Fe Prep led school officials to order a shelter-in-place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContact was made with leadership at Santa Fe Prep to inform them of an incident near their campus,\u201d Valdez said in an email to Tri-City Record.<\/p>\n<p>The campus community of St. John\u2019s College was alerted by officials at 11 a.m. through email to immediately shelter in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease remain on campus and limit movement around campus to the extent possible,\u201d the email read.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Fe Prep students were evacuated and released to their parents after the shelter-in-place order was lifted, according to Valdez.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Fe police worked alongside New Mexico State Police to manage traffic and secure the scene. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit assisted in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A second bomb threat was also reported on Armenta Street. Staff assisted with traffic and security operations there as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of an abundance of caution, considering yesterday\u2019s senseless killing of political activist Charlie Kirk, City Hall was placed on a lockdown,\u201d Valdez said. \u201cThe lockdown at City Hall was lifted at 1:47 p.m.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of 2 p.m., the threats on Camino de Cruz Blanca and Armenta Street were cleared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take all threats seriously,\u201d Valdez said. \u201cThey have no place in our community and individuals that make threats will be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContact was made with leadership at Santa Fe Prep to inform them of an incident near their campus,\u201d he said in an email to <em id=\"emphasis-3dd043f92648d0b569a7933ef2fb5c4a\">Tri-City Record.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrounding campuses and municipals take precautions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1240,1222,155,799,28,1241,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-16573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-aztec","tag-bloomfield","tag-education","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-kirtland","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20275,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions\/20275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16573"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}