After a nearly two-hour search and a school lockdown, deputies finally got their man.

Bothell Police Department Detective Sergeant Elmer Brown said Bothell patrol units were assisting Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office deputies in a search for a burglary suspect last Friday afternoon. Crystal Springs Elementary School was locked down as a safety precaution since the police activity was occurring nearby, he added.

District Communications Director Leanna Albrecht noted that law enforcement apprehended the man they were searching for, so they ended the lockdown.

A message on the Northshore School District Web site at 2:49 p.m. read, “The lockdown at Crystal Springs Elementary School due to police activity in the area is over. The lockdown was not related to school or students. School will be dismissed at the normal time. A letter will be going home with students.”

School was dismissed on time at 3:35 p.m., said Albrecht, who added that Crystal Springs’ talent show scheduled for Friday evening was canceled.

According to Rebecca Hover, sheriff’s office director of communications, shortly before noon Friday they received a report of a house being burglarized in the Lynnwood area. On the way to that call, deputies spotted the suspect’s vehicle near 164th Street. The deputies tried to stop the suspect, but he fled, eventually heading south on Interstate 5 and then south on Interstate 405.

“He ditched his vehicle in the city of Bothell and took off on foot. Containment was set in an area near Crystal Springs Elementary School,” she wrote in an e-mail to the Reporter.

Hover added that deputies found the suspect at about 2:45 p.m. at a house on Ninth Avenue Southeast, south of the school.

“The suspect apparently was familiar with the people at that house and was hiding out there. He was arrested without incident and booked into jail for burglary and eluding, and possibly other charges to be determined,” Hover continued.

The man is believed to be in his mid-20s.