A North Carolina man is charged with armed bank robbery and firing at police after threatening explosives; no officers or civilians were injured.
Raleigh, NC. — A U.S. Magistrate Judge signed a federal criminal complaint on December 27, 2025, charging Willie Edward McGee, Jr. with armed bank robbery and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said McGee threatened civilians with explosives and then opened fire on responding officers. “That is not desperation, it is domestic terror,” Blanche said, adding that the defendant is in custody and faces decades in federal prison.
The complaint alleges McGee entered a First Citizens Bank branch in Zebulon on December 26, 2025, demanded money under the threat of detonating C-4, and fled with $3,234. Surveillance video showed him leaving the scene in a semi-truck…