{"id":74338,"date":"2019-09-11T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-school-lockout-lifted-man-in-bulletproof-vest-being-evaluated\/"},"modified":"2019-09-11T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:54:56","slug":"durango-school-lockout-lifted-man-in-bulletproof-vest-being-evaluated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-school-lockout-lifted-man-in-bulletproof-vest-being-evaluated\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango school lockout lifted; man in bulletproof vest being evaluated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d7c8b804-e390-41ce-9c92-f53fca72bd5a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Durango Police Department asked three public schools to lock their doors Wednesday afternoon when a man in a bulletproof vest was seen on Durango High School\u2019s campus, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>A Durango High School administrator saw the man in the vest, without a shirt, and black cargo pants near the tennis courts behind the school, said Durango police spokesman Ray Shupe. The man disappeared before law enforcement could make contact, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>School administrators asked the liaison officer to lock the doors around noon, Shupe said. Patrol officers were called to help search for the suspect. A call to parents warned of a lockout at Durango High School, Miller Middle School and Needham Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p>The Durango Police Department apprehended the suspect within 20 minutes of the non-emergency call to parents. School administrators lifted the lockout around 1:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement identified the man as Brett Santistevan, 34, of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, Shupe said.<\/p>\n<p>Durango police do not plan to charge Santistevan with a crime, Shupe said.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement responded Tuesday to a report of Santistevan on a Durango Transit bus with a bulletproof vest.<\/p>\n<p>Santistevan didn\u2019t threaten people or law enforcement and has not committed a crime. Durango police asked crisis workers with Axis Mental Health to evaluate his well-being.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s odd behavior,\u201d Shupe said. \u201cIn this day and age, you can\u2019t show up on a school campus in a bulletproof vest and not get a call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school district\u2019s announcement to parents said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease note that your children are not in danger. This is being implemented as a precautionary measure to ensure their safety. A lockout means we lock the outside doors to the school but school activities continue as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>locked at Durango High, Miller Middle and Needham Elementary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[386,592,1065,28,2410,4749,51],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-durango-high-school","tag-durango-police-department","tag-headlines","tag-miller-middle-school","tag-needham-elementary","tag-police"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74338","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=74338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74338"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}