North Carolina Senate candidate arrested after armed standoff near school

Libertarian North Carolina state Senate candidate Jonathan Miller was arrested Monday after an hours-long armed standoff with police near a private school, following cryptic and threatening posts on social media that sparked a manhunt. No shots were fired during the confrontation. Miller, who faces charges including felon in possession of a firearm and communicating threats, fled into woods after police approached him over welfare concerns. He told a local affiliate he had posted a suicide note on X, and the standoff prompted a lockdown at nearby Resurrection Lutheran School. The Libertarian Party of North Carolina thanked law enforcement for resolving the situation without violence. Miller, running on a platform of reducing regulations and repealing drug laws, had a warrant for being a felon in possession of a firearm.