Several bomb threats in the Columbia Heights School District Monday morning led to the cancellation of classes there.
In a post on their website, officials said they took the action out of an abundance of caution.
Later, Columbia Heights Police reported bomb threats were emailed to several schools in the district, but after searching the schools involved, no suspicious items were found.
Multiple agencies are investigating the source of the threats.
Police say classes are set to resume tomorrow for the district's five schools and 3,400 students.
The cancellation comes one day after 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas, were released following a judge’s order and returned to Minnesota.
The boy and his dad, Adrian Conejo Arias, who originally is from Ecuador, were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20. They were taken to a detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
Images of immigration officers surrounding the young boy in a blue bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack drew outrage about the Trump administration’s crackdown in Minneapolis.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not target or arrest the boy, and repeated assertions that his mother refused to take him after his father’s apprehension. His father told officers he wanted Liam to be with him, she said.
The government said the boy's father entered the U.S. illegally from Ecuador in December 2024. The family’s lawyer said he has an asylum claim pending that allows him to stay in the U.S.
However, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was told on ABC's "This Week" that the Liam and his father had applied for asylum and were going through the legal process.
"That is not true," Blanche claimed. "There's a very meaningful dispute about whether they had properly applied for asylum. And again, I cannot get into the specifics, the specifics of this litigation, but you can read the same briefs I can, and what you just said is not true."
Blanche says the government will appeal the judge's order that led to the release of Liam and his father.
The Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review’s online court docket shows no future hearings for Liam’s father.
In ordering the release of Liam and his father, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery blasted the administration, writing, “The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.”