On October 29, at around 4:07 p.m., North Platte police received multiple 911 calls reporting that there was a physical altercation in the parking lot of Dollar Tree, 201 East Leota. It was reported that one of the subjects involved in the disturbance had pulled a gun.
Officer Beth Kerr says a truck driver who was in the area and was a former corrections officer, was holding the suspect with the gun, 51-year-old Frank Foel, down on the ground when officers arrived and took him into custody.
Further investigation revealed that the gun was an airsoft gun and that the argument had started after a semi ran over a bicycle.
Kerr says that as officers were speaking to witnesses, Foel was making threats to kill them.
Foel was taken to the Emergency Room at Great Plains Health where he was treated and released. He was then jailed at the Lincoln County Detention Center on charges of terroristic threats, resisting arrest, tampering with witnesses and use of a weapon to commit a felony.
Officers did not report any other injuries.