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Police activity in NW Miami-Dade prompts campus lockdown

Police activity prompts campus lockdown
Police activity prompts campus lockdown 01:55

MIAMI -- A lockdown was put in place Tuesday afternoon for an educational campus because of police activity in NW Miami-Dade, authorities said.

Officials at Thena Crowder Early Childhood & Diagnostic Center, located at 757 NW 66th Street, confirmed to CBS 4 News that a lockdown was in place because of the police investigation.

Police did not immediately respond to requests for information about their investigation.

Authorities would later confirm they had apprehended someone after setting up a perimeter in the area.

The incident stemmed from a traffic stop in which the driver bailed out of his vehicle and fled on foot. 

Live video from Chopper 4 showed several police cruisers at a nearby fuel station.

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