An arrest on Wednesday morning led Sequim School District officials to have the main campus “shelter-in-place” for about 15 minutes, according to the Sequim Police Department.

Deputy Police Chief John Southard said police first responded at 7:38 a.m. March 26 to a situation inside a facility owned by Peninsula Behavioral Health on North Fifth Avenue.

A man had committed some “criminal behavior,” barricaded himself inside the facility and refused to come out, Southard said.

No one was physically harmed during the situation, he said.

“We were within the school zone and out of an abundance of caution, we asked for them to shelter-in-place,” Southard said.

The man was taken into custody, and the schools were given notice they could come out of shelter-in-place, he said.

Police were still on scene as of 10:30 a.m. conducting interviews.

Sequim School District officials emailed families about the situation stating that they “received communication at approximately 9:30 a.m. this morning from the Sequim Police Department regarding law enforcement activity near the main campus.”

“In response, main campus schools were placed in a shelter-in-place protocol as a precautionary measure,” staff reported.

“During this time, students and staff remained indoors with all exterior doors locked. Classroom activities continued as usual.”

The shelter-in-place order ended at 9:45 a.m.

The previous week, Greywolf Elementary School was advised to shelter-in-place for a few minutes on March 18 at 11:57 a.m. after an arrest was made nearby on U.S. Highway 101.

The man was identified to have an arrest warrant and he was taken into custody within three minutes, according to Chief Criminal Deputy Amy Bundy.

The school went into shelter-in-place protocol out of an abundance of caution, she said.