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Texas Man Arrested After Threatening Insurance Company

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DALLAS (KRLD) - An East Texan was arrested after repeatedly making a terrorist threat to an insurance company. 

Police say the Smith County man made several calls to a local state farm insurance office as well as to the company's call center. 


Sheriff Larry Smith says 62-year-old Gregory McCleskey 'alluded to the fact that he an AK-47 and he needed to be paid for his insurance claim"

Smith says McCleskey was arrested outside of his Troup home. "Any time you say you have a firearm and you equate that to 'you owe me money,' that's a terroristic threat. It went even further than that."

McCleskey is jailed on a $100,000 bond. A terroristic threat, Placing the Public in Fear of Serious Bodily Injury is a third-degree felony.