WEST FRANKFORT — The presence of a suspicious person making threats near the school reportedly sent a Southern Illinois high school into soft lockdown Monday afternoon.

According to his post on the school’s West Frankfort Redbirds Facebook page, Superintendent Matt Donkin said the school went on a soft lockdown after receiving reports of a suspicious person in a nearby neighborhood making threatening comments.

The soft lockdown simply brought students who were outside into the building, but classes went on without interruption.

About an hour after the initial reports, the suspicious person was taken into custody and the school was taken off the lockdown.

More information will be released as it becomes available.