Sword-wielding man arrested at Wal-Mart

Tuesday, November 2, 2004

A Chaffee, Mo., man armed with a sword, an air rifle and a pocketknife was arrested Monday morning after a two-city rampage that began with the robbery of a Scott City pharmacy and ended in Cape Girardeau with an empty bomb threat and an assault on a Wal-Mart display that caused the store to be evacuated.

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