Good morning everyone.
My name is Detective Richard and Sinas.
I'm the public information officer
for the base of Police Department.
We're out here on Harrison Southern
to give you a quick update on the
incident that is going on at Mesa
High School this morning at around
8:30 hours we received a phone
call 911 call a possible suspicious
device located on the campus.
Once we receive that call,
we notified school personnel.
School personnel took immediate action.
Went into lockdown and started
evacuating their lockdown procedures.
At that point, fire,
fire and police personnel responded.
This scene started doing a preliminary
search and the school decided to
go ahead and evacuate all students.
Immediately,
all the students were sent out
to the football field and away
from the buildings itself so they
could be a little more safe.
We've had some situations with the students
complaining of some heat related illnesses.
And also a little bit of
anxiety related things,
but there were no injuries
at all to any students,
and as of right now there
has been no device found.
Police personnel are on scene and
they're going through the school
to make sure everything is safe.
Detective why the other large
perimeter and I was told that
there's a for air traffic as well.
There's a filter in that.
Is that just policy?
Yeah, anytime there's a situation like this.
First of all,
if you guys can see out on southern we
have a massive construction going on,
so it's just bogging down everything.
So even though there it appears
like there's a lot of stuff going
on on the streets and a lot of it
is caused due to the construction
when a situation like this and
the school butts up to a major St.
It's we find it easier to go ahead
and just shut down the street itself.
As far as what's going on up in the air.
Sometimes we will do any something like that,
but we don't have anything like
that going on right now.
Just talk about how difficult
it is to, you know, get this
type of incident under control
with so many students on campus.
Yeah, anytime we receive a call like this,
whether it turns out to be a fake
call or something legitimate,
we have to follow safety procedures
for the good of the students.
There is. This is a very large school.
There's a large student population
here and we just have to go through
these procedures and take our time.
Do it slowly and do it.
Most importantly, do it correctly.
Did the school call you guys?
No, it was a 911 call that came in.
Are you now investigating The
Who made that 911 call in?
Yeah, the incident obviously is still active.
We have a lot of personnel on scene.
We have detectives looking into that.
They're going
through the 911 call and they're trying
to figure out exactly what happened.
How much longer?
I don't want to.
I don't want to give that a guess.
It's safe to say that we're
going to take our time.
Situations like this slow
as fast if that makes sense.
The slower we go,
the better we are and then make
sure we don't miss anything which
is our main goal and what's
going on with students? The
students have all been evacuated over
to Mountain View High School on buses,
so that is something that occurred
about an hour ago and we did that
as quickly as we could to get the
students out of the heat, of course,
but again, I just want to make sure.
Everyone knows there was no students injured.
It references incident.
We just have some heat
related things going on.
The students were treated for those things
and then transported outside Mountain View.
Mesa Public Schools is coordinating
with all the parents to get that
information to them and to make
sure their parents know what's
going on with their with their kids.
Are
you guys aware of any kind of
vandalism on school campuses by tick?
Tock thing from a guy named Darius Licks.
I am not aware of anything like that.
There any other schools that received
calls now? We were getting some
information about something going
on at Westwood High School. That is.
I do not have anything like that going
on there and as far as art on our end
we have not received anything like that.
There could be a situation where parents
are calling maybe getting the wrong school.
I don't want to venture to
say what's happening there,
but we have nothing going on at that.
So what does the follow up look
like when you're investigating?
Well, our first priority is to
make sure the scene is safe,
so once we get that done then we can.
We can slow down a little bit,
but I don't want to give away some
of those techniques about what we're
doing about trying to find the person
that made that call or trying to
find and locate a possible suspect.
If anything is found right now,
we don't have anything going on that has
LED us to believe there is something there,
but we are doing our due diligence
diligence and checking on it.
Did you find anything that could resemble
a device or anything that might
have prompted the college?
We have found nothing yet and
we are still actively going
through all the buildings and
making sure everything is safe.
Was there a flight restriction
ever put in place?
Not that I am aware of?
I believe there was.
I believe there was one last
question I've been told.
Anything like that? I'll check on
and I'll get back to you on something
I have not been notified of that.