Investigators in Orange County have arrested an Alabama man for making criminal threats against a Catholic church in Silverado Canyon, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said this week.

Authorities were first alerted by officials from St. Michael’s Abbey on Silverado Canyon Road last week about a man, later identified as Joshuah Michael Richardson, sending potentially threatening emails.

Then Richardson, 38, showed up at the church in person and made additional threats, the sheriff’s department said.

When a priest at the church called authorities, Richard was taken into custody without an incident.

But what investigators found was alarming: Richardson had body armor, high-capacity magazines, brass knuckles and knives in his car.

"I honestly feel something very, very serious was pr

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