CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- A 14-year-old male student was detained the day before President Barack Obama was scheduled to make an appearance at a Mooresville school last week.

The Mooresville Police Department says the teen is a student at Mooresville Middle School and Tweeted that he would shoot the president if he came to his school.

Mooresville police held the teen at the request of the U.S. Secret Service for 5 days in a juvenile detention facility. The teen was arrested and is charged with communicating threats.

Police say he will have to appear in court on the charge.

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Summer is the high season for door-to-door sales of everything from magazines to meat, alarm monitoring services to driveway repaving. Representatives will soon be ringing doorbells and peddling products in neighborhoods throughout the Southern Piedmont. While many of these companies are reputable, a few are not.

The BBB has tips for how you can shop at your front door without being scammed.

Out of all of the products sold door-to-door, magazine sales generate the most BBB complaints. “Some of these companies are legitimate,” said BBB President Tom Bartholomy, “but other companies have generated so many complaints that the BBB has labeled door-to-door magazine sales as a ‘highly-suspect’ industry.”

In the last 36 months, consumers have filed 92 complaints against local magazine sales operations. Charlotte-based Generations Making Differences (BBB grade F) has had 20 complaints filed against it, of which five are unanswered.

HARMONY, NC (WBTV)- Deputies in Iredell County have arrested a man they say assaulted two people with a pipe and knife in Harmony and was manufacturing illegal drugs at his home.

Leland Earl Gifford III, 45, of Harmony, is charged with possession of methamphetamine, manufacturing methamphetamine, maintaining a dwelling for use of controlled substance and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to a news release from the Iredell County Sheriff's Office.

The initial assault was reported on June 2 at Linda Drive in Harmony.

Deputies learned that Gifford had assaulted two people with a pipe and a knife and was on his way home to assault a third person on Stine Road, according to the report.

Investigators rushed to Gifford's home but could not find anyone on the property.

An outbuilding with its lights on and door open out behind the home caught deputies attention.