Airport Support Staff Arrested After Stealing Aircraft and Threatening to Crash Into Walmart

A stolen airplane rests in a field of soybeans after crash-landing near Ripley, Miss., on Sept. 3, 2022. Nikki Boertman/AP Photo

A man has been arrested after he stole an aircraft and threatened to crash into a Walmart store in Tupelo, Mississippi, on Saturday.

Tupelo Police Chief John Quaka identified the suspect as 29-year-old Cory Wayne Patterson, who has been charged with grand larceny and making terroristic threats.