Police charged a man with threatening Raleigh (NC) Firefighters and Wake County EMS workers with a machete Friday when they answered a call in a parking lot at 1823 Capital Blvd. Grady Lee Smith, 55, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, being intoxicated and disruptive and going to the terror of the people.
Smith came at the emergency personnel with the machete and shouted, “You better leave my wife alone,” according to an arrest warrant filed by police officers who rushed to the scene when the fire and medical workers called for help. The warrant also charges that Smith challenged a fire department captain to a fight. A Wake County magistrate set Smith’s bail at $3,000.
