Published: January 14, 2019

OPERATIONS AT TWO SOUTH LAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOLS ARE BACK TO NORMAL FOLLOWING A MORNING “LOCK OUT”.  SOUTH LAWRENCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND LORETTO HIGH SCHOOL WERE PLACED UNDER LOCK OUT PROTOCOLS THIS MORNING WHILE LOCAL AUTHORITIES SEARCHED FOR A VEHICLE THEFT SUSPECT.  SCHOOL OFFICIALS INDICATE THE MOVE WAS PRECAUTIONARY FOLLOWING A NEARBY PURSUIT AND SUBSEQUENT SEARCH FOR THE SUSPECT, ROBERT MCCULLOUGH, WHO WAS APPREHENDED EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON.  IN ADDITION LORETTO SACRED HEART SCHOOL WAS ALSO LOCKED OUT FOR A TIME WHILE THE SEARCH TOOK PLACE.  MCCULLOUGH FACES CHARGES OF THEFT OF MOTOR VEHICLE, POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, EVADING ARREST AND FAILURE TO YIELD.  HE ALSO HAS OUTSTANDING WARRANTS OUT OF LAWRENCE COUNTY AND LEWIS COUNTY.