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Maryland Police Think Man May Have Had Aurora-Like Shooting Plot, Report Says

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WASHINGTON -- Police in Maryland foiled what may have been a shooting plot on the scale of last week's massacre at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, according to a report from WJLA-TV/ABC7.

The television station reported Friday that police took a Crofton man into custody Thursday night and found an "arsenal" of weapons at his home. The man, identified in media reports as Neil Prescott, was in the process of being terminated from his job at mailroom supplier and document company Pitney Bowes in Prince George's County and "had made threats directed toward his employer," according to WJLA-TV. click here to read the full story