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A North Carolina man was arrested and accused of threatening federal aid workers providing disaster relief after Hurricane Helene. Rutherford County sheriff’s deputies took 44-year-old William Jacob Parsons, of Bostic, into custody and charged him with going armed to the terror of the public after he allegedly made a comment about harming workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency while carrying a military-style rifle, reported WGHP-TV. Investigators obtained a description of the suspect’s vehicle and later identified him as Parsons, who they said was armed with a handgun and rifle a…

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