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Police serving warrant leads to SWAT unit outside Cary home; one person detained
WRAL's Sky 5 captured several Cary police vehicles and a SWAT team truck outside a home on Transom View Way.
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1 dead, suspect in custody after SWAT raids Goldsboro home
A 22-year-old man was shot and killed in Goldsboro, and police have taken a 23-year-old suspect into custody.
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Goldsboro shooting: 1 dead, man faces murder charge after SWAT raids home
A 22-year-old man was shot and killed in Goldsboro, and police have taken a 23-year-old suspect into custody.
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Goldsboro shooting: Sky 5 flies over SWAT raid of home, person in custody
A SWAT team raided a home in Goldsboro after a report of a shooting. Officers took a person into custody. This video does not have sound.
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Nash County deputies train with LAPD's SWAT team
Nash County sheriff's deputies recently traveled to Los Angeles to train with the Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT team.
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Wake Forest family in distress days after swatting incident at their home
Luke Reynolds and his family were victims of swatting on Sunday. Swatting is a prank call intended to provoke law enforcement.
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Wake Forest family terrified after swatting incident sends dozens of law enforcement officers to their home
Luke Reynolds and his family were victims of swatting, a prank call intended to provoke law enforcement.
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Minnesota man arrested for 2022 Vass 'swatting' attempt
According to Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields, deputies received a false report of multiple people being shot at a home in Vass. Responding officers evaluated the circumstances and found no shooting had occurred before a SWAT team was deployed.
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Cary man accused of threatening to shoot children arrested twice in 24 hours
A Cary man accused of threatening to shoot children was arrested twice in 24 hours. Kevin Douglas called WRAL's newsroom on Thursday right before his second arrest.
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Member of Robeson SWAT team shot outside Pembroke, suspects arrested and charged
A member of the Robeson County Sheriff's Office SWAT team was shot Thursday afternoon, Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said.
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'It could have gotten us killed': Fayetteville police response to hoax call was just the first surprise for family
A terrifying phone call last week sent emergency crews scrambling in Fayetteville.
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Hoax reports of school shootings rattle students across NC
At least a half dozen North Carolina schools investigated reports of a shooter on campus Thursday morning. No real threat was ever found.
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It's a crime: Hoax threats against schools across the state not just pranks
After dozens of reports of active shooter situations on school campuses rolled across North Carolina on Thursday, law enforcement officers issued this reminder: Any threat against a school is not simply a prank. It is a felony.
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Suspect dead, 3 deputies injured after Wayne County standoff
The deputies were shot while serving an involuntary commitment order, meaning someone thought the suspect was a danger to himself and needed help. at a home in the 2500 block of Arrington Bridge Road in Dudley.
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Clayton man wanted for multiple armed robberies captured by SWAT teams in Garner
Police said on Sunday that an armed robbery suspect barricaded himself in a vacant home on Atchison Street after a police chase. The man was taken into custody by SWAT teams.
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Owners give go-ahead for SWAT to enter Garner house after man wanted for armed robbery barricades himself
A wanted man, armed with a rifle, "possibly" barricaded himself inside a home in Garner on Sunday afternoon, police said.
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Fugitive who barricaded himself in Durham hotel surrenders
According to Durham police, a subject has barricaded himself in a Durham hotel room.