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Police Found a Pickup Truck Full of Bombs and Guns Near Capitol, Feds Say

By CNN

09 January 21

n Alabama man allegedly parked a pickup truck packed with 11 homemade bombs, an assault rifle and a handgun just two blocks form the United States Capitol Building, according to federal prosecutors.

The revelation is one of the most unsettling details federal prosecutors have made public this week as they sift through what went down when pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol. Other people have been accused of taking guns and ammunition onto Capitol grounds.

Lonnie Leroy Coffman, 70, of Falkville, Alabama, is accused of planting the pickup truck.

A bomb squad found the arsenal during the scramble to secure the federal complex after it was overrun by pro-Trump rioters.

Coffman has been arrested and charged with possession of an unregistered firearm and carrying a pistol without a license, CNN reported. He told police that he had mason jars filled with “melted Styrofoam and gasoline.” Police also found cloth rags and lighters.

Federal investigators said that combination, if exploded, would have the effect of napalm “insofar as it causes the flammable liquid to better stick to objects that it hits upon detonation,” according to the court record.

Coffman had parked his pickup truck at 9:15 a.m. ET on First St SE on the Hill, near the National Republican Club, commonly called the Capitol Hill Club. The truck had a handgun on the passenger seat, an M4 Carbine assault rifle, along with rifle magazines loaded with ammunition, police said.

Coffman appeared before a federal judge this week, and is being detained at least until his next court appearance on Tuesday.