Manzano H.S., Chelwood and Apache schools have been released

3:35pm UPDATE: The lockdown on all three schools has been lifted according to KOB radio.

3:05pm UPDATE: Several streets in the vicinity of Manzano High School have been blocked off, and Albuquerque police will only say they are looking for a "suspicious person," according to APD spokeswoman Trish Hoffman.

Parents were being turned away from the school, KOB-TV reported.

Three schools in the vicinity of Lomas and Chelwood Park Boulevard NE -- Manzano High School and Chelwood and Apache elementary schools -- were put on lockdown around 2 p.m. today when school officials were told by Albuquerque police of a "suspicious person" in the area, according to Albuquerque Public Schools spokeswoman Lauran Morrison.

Let-out time at the high school was at 2:20 p.m. and students were asked to board buses in the school's west parking lot rather than the east lot, Morrison said.

Apache Elementary School is scheduled to let out at 2:45 p.m., and Chelwood at 2:55 p.m., but it was unclear at the moment whether students would be allowed to leave at the regular time, Morrison said.