PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — A Portageville man is in custody after threatening a local school.
According to a statement from Portageville Police Chief Ronnie Adams, at approximately 11:32 a.m. Wednesday, the Portageville School Resource Officer received a call of a threat made to the Portageville schools by an adult. The school was immediately placed on lockdown.
Officers were able to locate and take the suspect in to custody without incident. Once the suspect was in custody, the school was taken out of lock down.
Formal charges were filed by New Madrid County Prosecuting Attorney Andrew Lawson for Earnest Treadwell, 37, of Portageville for making a terrorist threat in the first degree. Treadwell is being held at the Mississippi County Jail on a $5,000 bond with special condition that defendant have no entry upon Portageville School District property.