Repeat offender truck driver charged with bank robbery after claiming C-4 explosives, firing on officers: feds

A North Carolina motortruck driver, who is simply a repetition offender, has been federally charged pursuing a slope robbery and a shootout with instrumentality enforcement, authorities said.

Willie Edward McGee Jr. is charged with slope robbery and discharging a firearm successful furtherance of a transgression of violence, according to a complaint.

Authorities said that McGee entered a First Citizens Bank successful Zebulon, North Carolina, connected Dec. 26, and demanded wealth from a teller portion claiming to person C-4 explosives. The teller gave him $3,234, and McGee fled successful a semi-truck, they said.

Law enforcement officers from aggregate agencies responded to an equipped slope robbery probe that led to the apprehension of Willie Edward McGee Jr. successful Rocky Mount, North Carolina. (U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina)

Deputies with the Rocky Mount Police Department said that McGee's motortruck was recovered successful a Hobby Lobby parking batch pursuing the archetypal robbery.

According to surveillance and officers astatine the scene, McGee allegedly exited the conveyance equipped with a Ruger AR-style 5.56 firearm and fired astatine officers.

Police returned occurrence and struck McGee. No instrumentality enforcement officers oregon civilians were injured. While taking McGee into custody, officers recovered the AR firearm helium allegedly utilized to sprout astatine officers and a handgun from his waistband.

No officers oregon members of the nationalist were injured arsenic instrumentality enforcement safely took the fishy into custody aft a coordinated effect successful Rocky Mount. (U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina)

McGee, according to records reviewed by WRAL-News, has a lengthy transgression history. The section outlet said that the fishy has dozens of charges dating backmost much than 20 years.

WRAL reported that helium has offenses spanning from Duplin, Wake and Durham counties.

Federal and section instrumentality enforcement recovered guns and grounds pursuing the apprehension of a fishy charged with equipped slope robbery and discharging a firearm successful furtherance of a transgression of violence. (U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina)

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche called the incidental "domestic terror."

"As alleged, this suspect didn’t conscionable rob a slope — helium threatened guiltless civilians with explosives and past opened occurrence connected constabulary officers," Blanche said. "That is not desperation, it is home terror. Thanks to the bonzer courageousness and professionalism of our instrumentality enforcement partners, helium is alive, successful custody, and facing decades successful national prison."

"Let this service arsenic a warning: if you bring unit into our communities oregon people the men and women who support them, this Department of Justice volition conscionable you with the afloat value of the national authorities and guarantee you are removed from the streets for a precise agelong time."

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The probe remains active. Anyone with further accusation astir the alleged crimes is asked to delight telephone the FBI astatine (704) 672-6100. Fox News Digital has reached retired to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina, for comment.