1 in custody after threat cancels classes at Miami Dade College’s North campus

A person who is accused of making a threat to Miami Dade College’s North campus has been taken into custody, according to school officials. The threat pushed administrators to cancel classes at the campus as a precaution Wednesday night.

The class cancellations at the school’s north campus, 11380 NW 27th Ave., were announced shortly before 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and were done at the recommendation of police, the college announced on Twitter.

Police have not provided details about the threat.

The person was in custody and an “all clear” was given shortly after 8:30 p.m., MDC said.

Classes and operations will resume Thursday morning. Miami-Dade police are investigating the incident.

This story was originally published February 20, 2020 at 7:31 AM.

Michelle Marchante

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Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription