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Vet indicted on gun charge in VA threat

Updated: Wednesday, 04 Nov 2009, 1:35 PM MST
Published : Wednesday, 04 Nov 2009, 1:35 PM MST

    BENTON, Ill. (AP) - An Army veteran who authorities say threatened to go on a shooting rampage at a Veterans Affairs hospital in southern Illinois has been indicted on a gun charge.

    A federal grand jury in Benton indicted 29-year-old Mark Harmon on one count of attempted possession of a firearm on federal property with the intent to commit a crime.

    Tuesday's indictment replaces a criminal complaint that accused him of having a handgun last month outside the VA hospital in Marion after calling a nurse and saying he planned to "fill that place with lead."

    Authorities say they found a loaded Glock 23 semiautomatic handgun and a magazine filled with 13 bullets in Harmon's truck.

    Harmon is jailed without bond. One of his public defenders declined to comment Wednesday.
     

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