Lompoc High School was briefly placed on lockdown March 7 after a vehicle being pursued by the California Highway Patrol crashed on the school’s front lawn, according to the school’s public information officer, John Karbula.
Officers from the CHP in Buellton were in pursuit of the vehicle, according to CHP Public Information Officer John Ortega, although he wasn’t able to immediately answer questions from the Sun.
Karbula told the Sun that the school was briefly placed on lockdown shortly before noon after the car crashed into a concrete bunker and damaged an electrical transformer.
There were three suspects in the vehicle, Karbula said, and two were apprehended immediately, while a third remained at large while police and officials from the high school conducted a classroom-by-classroom sweep.
The suspect was eventually found and the lockdown was lifted shortly after 1 p.m., Karbula said, adding that no one was hurt.
This article appears in Mar 9-16, 2017.