The Alabama man had a variety of loaded guns in addition to Mason jars filled with both gas and styrofoam, which experts said would have a 'napalm-like' effect.
Neither Lonnie Leroy Coffman, 72, nor his lawyer offered any explanation of why he brought the Mason jars filled with gasoline and Styrofoam, which explosives experts said would have had an effect similar to napalm if ignited, to the District. He is thought to be the most heavily armed defendant yet identified among the defendants in cases related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, and has been in jail since that day.
Coffman had previously been linked with a Texas-based militia that staged an “armed citizen camp” aimed at enforcing immigration laws, prosecutors said. And he traveled to Washington on Dec. 11, 2020, court records show, where he approached the Washington home and office of Sen. Ted Cruz weeks earlier to discuss “election fraud.
pipe bombs were found on the morning of Jan. 6 outside the headquarters of both the Democratic and Republican parties Coffman served in the military on two tours in the Vietnam War, the judge noted, pointing out that he lied about his age to enlist while underage in1968. She said his experience in Vietnam would have made him familiar with the effects of napalm. He worked as a machine operator in Alabama for 29 years before retiring in 2012. He did not enter the Capitol during the riot, the judge noted, and had no prior criminal record.
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