Gallup police arrest woman accuse of threatening school bus staff with hatchet

GALLUP, N.M. – Gallup police arrested a 57-year-old woman after a three-hour standoff at the Gallup-McKinley County school bus headquarters.

Police said the standoff started just before 9 a.m. Tuesday at the school bus yard.

Officers said Barbara Nivison barricaded herself inside a van and admitted using meth while threatening to harm staff with a hatchet.

Police said SWAT, behavioral health and crisis negotiation teams responded. Officers said Nivison swung the hatchet at teams during the standoff.

Police said no one was injured.

Nivison faces multiple felony charges.

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