Militia Member Riot Suspect Went To Ted Cruz’s Home

May 25, 2021 Extremists, Trump cultists

The Washington Post reports:

An Alabama man charged with bringing five loaded firearms and 11 molotov cocktails with napalm-like properties to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 approached Sen. Ted Cruz’s Washington home and office weeks earlier to discuss “election fraud” and previously joined an armed-citizen camp at the Texas border, new court filings alleged Monday.

The new U.S. allegations came in a federal judge’s ruling ordering the continued detention of Lonnie Leroy Coffman, of Falkville, Ala., citing evidence that he had potential plans to coordinate with others and was prepared for political violence.

The 71-year-old Army veteran is awaiting trial on charges of possessing some of the deadliest unregistered weapons and explosives on the day of the riots that breached the Capitol, led to assaults on nearly 140 police officers and forced the evacuation of Congress.

The Birmingham News reports:



Coffman called Cruz’s office, telling a staffer he went to the senator’s D.C. home to visit Cruz with no answer at the door and then called to try to arrange a meeting with Cruz. He was also looking for contact information for Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh.

A Cruz staffer told authorities that Coffman seemed “unbalanced” or “not 100 percent there” during the call.

While Coffman didn’t seem threatening, the staffer reported, his comments “were odd enough to record.” “The staff also noted that Mr. Coffman seemed “to be coming from the ‘friend’ angle in wanting to . . . help with the election fraud he saw,’’ the report states.

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