A busy night at the North Carolina State Fair almost came with a nightmare headline of its own. Instead, it ended in a federal guilty plea.
On Tuesday, a Raleigh man admitted in federal court to charges that stem from an October traffic stop, when officers found two machine-gun conversion devices and multiple firearms in his car. The vehicle was parked between the North Carolina State Fair and the Lenovo Center on a packed fair day, as a concert was underway and tens of thousands of people were close by. Prosecutors and local law enforcement say the fast-moving stop may have averted a catastrophic public-safety incident.
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