WILLOW SPRING, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Johnston County Sheriff's office arrested a man Friday after he brought a weapon on an elementary school campus.
Authorities said 34-year-old Nathan James Bailey wore a tactical vest, a badge and had a hand gun when he entered Dixon Road Elementary School in Willow Spring.
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According to the Sheriff's Office, school staff recognized Bailey as a parent of one of the students when he pass through a weapons detection system. He was then asked to leave the building before staff contacted law enforcement.
Bailey was not on campus when deputies arrived.
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He later turned himself in to the Sheriff's Office and is being charged with possession of a firearm on educational property and impersonation of a law enforcement officer.