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Man arrested after threatening California abbey

September 04, 2025

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CWN Editor's Note: Police in California have arrested a man who drove toward St. Michael’s Abbey, having vowed to “do the Lord’s reaping” a there.

Joshua Michael Richardson, an Alabama native, “claimed to be Michael the angel of death,” according to law-enforcement officials.

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