UNION TWP, Lawrence County — BC3 @ Lawrence Crossing was on lockdown for more than an hour Wednesday morning after a student wanted by township police entered the campus.

The male student was chased onto campus by another person who was apparently accusing him of either burglary or trespassing, according to Susan Changnon, Butler County Community College executive director of communications and marketing.

That person then contacted police while the student went to his regularly scheduled class, Changnon said.

The BC3 branch campus started the lockdown at 11:30 a.m., about 15 minutes after the student entered the campus.

Changnon said the student was found in a classroom around noon. The lockdown was lifted at 12:40 p.m. and the campus resumed day and evening classes.

Changnon said the student was not armed and that students and faculty were never in any danger.

The lockdown was a good test for the school’s crisis situation training, Changnon said.

“We’ve been working on this since 2007,” she said. “Anytime a situation like this occurs, it’s an opportunity to test our system.”

About 200 students were on campus at that time. The doors of the classrooms were automatically locked while police searched the campus for the wanted student.

“We just stepped back and let the police do their work,” Changnon said.

She said no charges were filed after the incident, and the student was released from custody.

The incident marked the second time in the past six months that a branch campus of BC3 has been put on lockdown.

In September, a similar situation occurred at BC3’s new campus in Brockway, Jefferson County.

“That was the first lockdown we ever had,” Changnon said. “And we had just opened there in August.”

That incident occurred late on a Friday, Changnon said, so there were only six or seven people in the building during the roughly hour-long lockdown.

But like the incident on Wednesday, it too served as a good security test for the school.

“I’m glad we have the crisis plan in place,” Changnon said. “We’re very proactive with it. It’s better to plan ahead.”