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ATLANTA (AP) — Police arrested a antheral astatine Atlanta's bustling airdrome connected Monday aft getting a extremity from his household that helium was readying to sprout up the place, and recovered an battle firearm and ammunition successful his motortruck outside, the city's constabulary main said.
Billy Joe Cagle, of Cartersville, Georgia, had described his program to sprout up the world's busiest airdrome connected a societal media livestream, Chief Darin Schierbaum said during a quality conference.
“The Cartersville Police Department was alerted by the household of Mr. Cagle that helium was streaming connected societal media that helium was headed to the Atlanta airport, successful their words, to ‘shoot it up,’ and the household stated that helium was successful possession of an battle rifle,” Schierbaum said, describing Cagle arsenic a “convicted felon.”
Cagle, 49, arrived astatine Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport successful a Chevrolet pickup motortruck that was parked close extracurricular the doors to the airdrome terminal. When constabulary went to the vehicle, they recovered an AR-15 with 27 rounds of ammunition, Schierbaum said.
“We’re present contiguous briefing you connected a occurrence and not a calamity due to the fact that a household saw thing and said something,” the main said.
Cartersville constabulary Capt. Greg Sparacio, whose section received the archetypal extremity from household members, said Cagle “had the volition to inflict harm to arsenic galore radical arsenic helium could.”
During the quality conference, constabulary showed surveillance video that shows Cagle arriving astatine the airdrome and body-camera video of his arrest.
A Chevrolet flatbed pickup motortruck is seen arriving curbside astatine the airdrome terminal astir 9:30 a.m. and past a antheral constabulary identified arsenic Cagle is seen entering the airdrome a fewer minutes later. He walks implicit to the TSA information checkpoint and had “high involvement successful that area,” Schierbaum said.
Body-camera footage shows Atlanta constabulary officers, who had a photograph of Cagle provided by his household connected their phones, attack him and commencement asking him questions earlier taking him into custody. As they instrumentality him to the crushed and enactment handcuffs connected him, Cagle tin beryllium heard yelling.
Cagle has been charged with making terroristic threats, transgression effort to perpetrate aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the committee of a felony and possession of a firearm by a felon, Schierbaum said.
Cagle was booked into the Clayton County Detention Facility connected Monday evening, according to online jailhouse records. Attempts to scope his household and co-workers done aggregate telephone numbers and emails were unsuccessful. It wasn’t instantly wide whether helium had a lawyer who could remark connected the charges.
Atlanta constabulary volition enactment with national authorities to find however helium obtained the gun, “which helium was not capable to legally possess,” Schierbaum said.
Mayor Andre Dickens said “we’re thankful to God” that a calamity was averted.
“We’re thankful to God and to bully information, and bully intel, and bully radical for this situation being averted,” the politician said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said successful a station connected the societal level X, “I americium thankful this idiosyncratic was taken into custody by instrumentality enforcement earlier harming anyone.”
