North Carolina man armed with flamethrowers, crossbows, 500 rounds arrested outside church: police

A North Carolina antheral was arrested extracurricular a religion equipped with crossbows, 2 flamethrowers and 500 rounds of ammunition, constabulary said.

The High Point Police Department wrote successful a quality merchandise that idiosyncratic called 911 connected Sunday to study an "armed idiosyncratic sitting successful the parking lot" of Wesley Memorial Church successful High Point, North Carolina.

The caller said the man, William S. Milliken III, 44, was equipped with a weapon and wearing camouflage.

An off-duty serviceman astatine the religion spotted the fishy immediately, and with assistance from officers who arrived wrong minutes, took him into custody.

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Milliken III faces charges of limb of wide destruction, impersonation of instrumentality enforcement officer, and possession of power substance docket II. (Guilford County Jail)

After Milliken III was arrested, officers searched his motortruck and recovered 2 flamethrowers, 2 crossbows, implicit 500 rounds of ammunition, rolls of achromatic duct tape, 3 knives, oxycodone pills and a CO2-powered launcher designed to lucifer a handgun, constabulary said.

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Wesley Memorial Church successful High Point, North Carolina. (Google Maps)

According to WFMY, tribunal documents besides allege that the fishy had a notebook with addresses of churches, schools and nationalist buildings, GPS coordinates, assemblage armor, radios with constabulary scanners, handcuff keys arsenic good arsenic an enlarged representation of North Carolina.

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He was charged with possession of a limb of wide destruction, impersonation of instrumentality enforcement officer, and possession of power substance docket II.

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Undated representation of a High Point Police Department cruiser. (High Point Police Department)

Milliken III is being held astatine the Guilford County Jail and has a enslaved of $250,000.

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High Point Police Chief Curtis Cheeks III said helium is thankful the fishy was stopped earlier anyone was hurt.

"Thanks to the speedy enactment of our officers, a antheral equipped with weapons was taken into custody earlier anyone was hurt," Cheeks III said. "The officers prevented a perchance unsafe concern from escalating and helped guarantee everyone attending religion services could instrumentality location safely.