RALEIGH -- Police charged a man with threatening city firefighters and Wake County EMS workers with a machete Friday when they answered a medical call in a parking loot at 1823 Capital Blvd.
Grady Lee Smith, 55, of 1420 S. Wilmington St. in Raleigh was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, being intoxicated and disruptive and going about to the terror of the people.
Details of the "woman down" call to which dispatchers sent fire department first responders and paramedics were not available. Smith, however, came at the emergency personnel with the machete and shouted, "You better leave my wife alone," according to an arrest warrant filed by officers who rushed to the scene when the fire and medical workers called for help.
