Veteran's threat leads to lockdown

A Wallace man caused the Spokane Veteran Affairs Medical Center to go into lockdown on Tuesday after the 26-year-old threatened to return to the hospital with a gun.

The lockdown occurred after John Alvin Barr II was told he couldn't fill his narcotics prescription because his physician had already left work, and it was noticed by hospital administrators that Barr had a history with requesting unscheduled refills.

This didn't go over well with the Silver Valley man, according to court documents, because Barr said he would "have to go home and get my .45, then."

The hospital took Barr's threat seriously and went into lockdown since this was the man's third firearm threat against the Spokane Veteran Affairs Medical Center. In October 2010, Barr went as far as to bring firearms to the hospital.

Barr was in U.S. District Court on Wednesday and ordered to remain in jail.