Update: Man arrested for attempted Scotland Park School break-in had prior sex, drug offenses
Police converged on Scotland Park Elementary School Thursday morning after someone tried to break into the building.
The school district said a caller informed them that a man tried to break a window at the rear of the campus.
The man broke through part of a double-glass window but did not succeed in gaining access to the building.
Officers arrived within three minutes of the call and several more arrived shortly thereafter. The man was held at gunpoint in less than six minutes from the original call and was taken into custody. Custody of the man was released to the Wichita Falls ISD Police Department, and he was transferred to the Wichita County Jail.
He is identified as Freddie Lee Brown, 34. He is being held on criminal mischief charges for breaking the window and in lieu of $100,000 bail, failure to register as a sex offender and assault of a public servant. When Brown was charged with a drug offense March 1 he listed his address as the James Allred prison unit in Iowa Park.
Brown must register as a sex offenders because of an assault on a nine-year-old girl in Brazos County in 2015.
Sheriff David Duke said Brown will face more charges for attacking a detention officer when he was taken to the Wichita County Jail.
Duke said the man claimed he had taken 20 ecstasy pills.
"From the way he was acting, I would believe it. It would have been a situation if he had gotten into the school," Duke said.
Duke said it took several officers to control Brown and get him into restraints. He was then taken to a hospital.
The school district said the campus "was put on a hold" and students were held in the classroom during the incident. The district said additional counselors were on campus Thursday for any students or staff who may need support.
More: Wichita Falls Police work city's latest homicide at Scotland Park
This was the second police incident at or near the school in less than a year. In June 2022, a parent of a pupil at the school shot and killed a homeless man in the adjacent Scotland Park because he thought the man was frightening children.
That man, Jason Myers, is awaiting trial on murder charges.
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