Vietnam Vet Charged With Bringing Guns To DC Tried To Find Texas Sen. Ted Cruz To Discuss Election Fraud

Dallas TX

26 May, 2021

11:48 AM

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CBS Dallas/Fort Worth May 26, 2021 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, May 24, ordered that 71-year-old Lonnie Coffman of Falkville, Alabama, should remain jailed until his trial on firearms charges. The federal judge cited Coffman's 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. CBS Local Digital Media personalizes the global reach of CBS-owned and operated television and radio stations with a local perspective.