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View Comments The Alabama man arrested near in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 with a cache of weapons and homemade Molotov cocktails was previously flagged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2014 for armed militia activity, according to new court records. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Monday denied Lonnie Coffman s bid for pre-trial release, writing the evidence against Coffman demonstrates he could present a concrete and prospective threat to the community. New evidence against Coffman was revealed in Kollar-Kotelly s order, including Coffman s 2014 militia ties and that Coffman made a trip to Washington D.C. just weeks before his arrest. His truck, where police would find gasoline-filled mason jars and weapons on Jan. 6, was tracked circling the U.S. Capitol and attempting to drive to Sen. Ted Cruz home on Dec. 11. ....
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) â A Vietnam veteran charged with bringing 11 molotov cocktails and other weapons to Washington on the day of the U.S. Capitol riot had driven around the area a month prior, kept lists of officials and tried to find Republican Sen. Ted Cruz to discuss election fraud, a judge wrote in a court document. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Monday ordered that 71-year-old Lonnie Coffman of Falkville, Alabama, should remain jailed until his trial on firearms charges. The federal judge cited Coffmanâs training at a Texas militia camp, his large stockpile of weaponry and actions, before and during the Jan. 6 insurrection, in the decision to deny him release. ....
Lonnie Leroy Coffman went to the D.C.-area home of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to discuss “election fraud,” according to court filings entered on Monday. Coffman, 71, had his bond request denied in a 24-page ruling by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Coffman, a U.S. Army veteran, was arrested on January 6 after police happened to notice weapons in his pickup truck while they were investigating reports of pipe bombs in a sealed off area of Capitol Hill in a matter unrelated to Coffman. In the truck, police found five loaded firearms, 11 molotov cocktail-style incendiary devices, a stun gun, a crossbow, and machetes. Coffman has been indicted on 17 charges. ....