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Governor Tate Reeves said in a statement that he “thankful the situation has been resolved and that no one was injured.”

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A pilot is threatening to “intentionally to crash into” a local Walmart in Mississippi, local police have said.At approximately 11am UK time (5am US time), officers from the Tupelo Police Department were notified to a possible threat by a pilot.According to officers, the plane, believed to be a King Air…

Police said the pilot threatened to “intentionally crash into Wal-Mart."

Police say the pilot of a small airplane has been circling over Tupelo and other parts of northeast Mississippi and had threatened to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store

The man faces charges of grand larceny and terroristic threats

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The pilot who threatened to crash a small plane into a Walmart in Tupelo, Miss., was taken into custody, local authorities said.

The pilot later landed safely, injuring no one, and was taken into police custody.

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