Deputies say man threatened Whole Foods employees with butcher knife

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Orange County deputies on Wednesday arrested a man accused of threatening people with a butcher knife. 

Investigators say Stacey Sawyer grabbed the knife from the meat department in the Whole Foods grocery store at Sand Lake Road and Turkey Lake Road in the Doctor Phillips area.   Detectives say Sawyer ran into the store after crashing his car into a taxi cab in the parking lot.  Inside Ssawyer's car, investigators say they found a loaded assault rifle.

Whole Foods tells us that no one was hurt during all the commotion.  Sawyer is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

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