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A man was arrested Friday after threatening three people inside a downtown Billings Albertsons with what appeared to be a handgun.

Scott Allan Craft, 51, was charged Monday with three counts of assault with a weapon. He appeared in Yellowstone County Justice Court and is being held in the Yellowstone County Detention Facility on $15,000 bond.

Craft lives directly behind the Albertsons and will be required to submit to GPS monitoring should he post bond.

According to charging documents, at about noon on Friday a manager at Albertsons, 611 N. 27th St., confronted Craft and told him he was suspected of repeated shoplifting.

The manager told Craft he was no longer welcome at the store. Craft brought out what looked like a handgun and threatened the manager as well as two other witnesses. The manager believed the weapon was a 9mm handgun, court documents state.

Craft returned to his home behind Albertsons and Billings police later spoke to him there. He told officers the gun was a BB gun and that he had displayed it as a joke.

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