(KNZA)--A Topeka man, accused of making threats on social media that led to a lockdown at the Royal Valley High School last August, has been  placed on probation.

A jury trial, which had been scheduled last week in Jackson County District Court for 20-year-old Braden Crowder, was cancelled after he pleaded no contest May 24 to a misdemeanor charge of harassment by telecommunication device.  In exchange for the plea, a felony charge of criminal threat was dismissed.

Crowder was given a suspended  jail sentence and placed on six-months probation.

As a condition of his probation, The Holton Recorder reports Crowder was ordered to prepare and submit letters of apology to the victims and school.

The high school in Hoyt was placed on a “ modified lockdown” for several hours on August 29 after a series of alleged criminal threats over social media toward a group of students at the school.

Classes continued during the lockdown but all exterior doors remained locked.

The lockdown was lifted after Crowder was taken into custody later in the day in Topeka.