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Three White Settlement schools were placed on "perimeter lockdown" for a few hours Friday while police, firefighters and federal agents removed what was described as a military "anti-personnel device" at a rented house that had been recently vacated.
Access to Liberty Elementary School, Brewer Middle School, and Mesa High School and Alternative Campus was restricted from about 11 a.m. to 2:20 p.m., police and school officials said."Perimeter lockdown" means parents and some other people may enter the campus with an escort after presenting identification, district spokeswoman Desiree Coyle said. "Lockdown" means no one is allowed on or off campus until police declare it safe, Coyle said.The Fort Worth Fire Department’s bomb squad removed the device, which it planned to detonate at a special facility, said Lt. Kent Worley, a department spokesman.White Settlement firefighters were called at 10:37 a.m. by a landlord who said he found the device at a house in the 800 block of Sandell Drive, said Lt. J.P. Bevering, a police spokesman. "He was cleaning up after some renters who moved out," Bevering said. "He found a suspicious device and thought maybe it was a bomb."Worley said bomb squad specialists told him that the object was an anti-personnel device.The object was yellow, with fins and pins on the back, Bevering said. Federal agents planned to contact the former tenants, Bevering said.
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