Dowagiac Union High School was briefly locked down Tuesday morning while local law enforcement officers executed an arrest warrant inside the school.

Students were confined to their classrooms for several minutes that morning as officers with the Dowagiac Police Department and St. Joseph Public Safety Department arrested a student attending the high school. Following the arrest, the lockdown order was rescinded, and classes resumed as usual, according to Union Schools Superintendent Paul Hartsig.

According to police, two Dowagiac officers were called to the school around 11 a.m. that morning to assist St. Joseph police officers with executing a two-count arrest warrant for a student at the school. After consulting with school administrators on how best to proceed, the decision was made to place the school under what the district calls a “soft” lockdown, meaning that students are ordered to remain inside their classrooms, though the building itself was not locked or barricaded, Dowagiac director of public safety Steve Grinnewald said.

“It’s done for the safety of the students and for the student we’re there to pick up,” Grinnewald said.

Though Dowagiac police did not release the name of the arrested student, he is not considered a juvenile offender, Grinnewald said. The warrant was for a crime of an assaultive nature, he added.

The student in question was taken into custody without incident by police, and no was injured or placed in danger during the arrest, Grinnewald said.

The total time the lockdown was in effect was around seven minutes, Grinnewald said.

These types of lockdowns are not a usual occurrence for the district, Superintendent Hartsig said.

A call to the St. Joseph Public Safety Department for more information was not returned as of Tuesday afternoon.