COTTAGE GROVE, Minn — Cottage Grove Police lifted a shelter-in-place alert for Armstrong Elementary and Hillside Elementary after officers took an armed man into custody Thursday morning.
Around 10 a.m., Cottage Grove police responded to a report of a 30-year-old man experiencing a mental health crisis while armed near the 8600 block of Ironwood Avenue. City authorities issued a shelter-in-place alert for neighbors and nearby schools.
Police officers arrested the man without incident by noon, and the alert was lifted, according to the Cottage Grove Police…