NAZARETH, Pa. (WPVI) -- Several schools in the Lehigh Valley were placed on lockdown Tuesday morning due to a suspicious former employee.
Officials say a man, fired from the Nazareth Area School District Friday, showed up in the parking lot of Nazareth Area Middle School around 6 a.m.
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But when security went to talk to him, the man was gone.
As a precaution, students at that school, along with others on the same campus, were either locked in their classrooms or buildings.
The former employee was found and taken into custody around 9 a.m.
At last check, no charges had been filed.