The Federal Bureau of Investigation said a vehicle was located near the site of the burglary of the Capitol building, which occurred on Wednesday • Dozens of congressmen were arrested
National Guard soldiers in front of the Capitol building // Photo: AFP
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed tonight (Saturday) that as part of the investigation into the burglary incidents to the Capitol building, a pickup truck with homemade bombs, weapons and hundreds of ammunition cartridges, which apparently belonged to one of the rioters, was located.
The vehicle was located near the Capitol compound and is suspected to belong to a Alabama state resident who attended a rally held in front of the building, and later a mass burglary of the building.
CNN reported that at least 11 homemade bombs, Molotov cocktails, fuel and explosives, assault rifles and dozens of cartridges were found in the van.
The vehicles and the deadly cargo were located by saboteurs after the incident, in an effort to secure the compound and prevent further violent incidents.
The owner of the vehicle, a 70-year-old man named Lonnie Leroy Kaufman, was arrested in a police ambush near his vehicle.
He is expected to stand trial for illegal possession of a weapon and possession of a "lethal facility", charges with a maximum sentence of up to 15 years in prison.
Kaufman was arrested as part of a wave of arrests of burglary operations on Capitol Hill.
It was reported today that two of the "stars" of the incident were arrested, including the man who was recorded stealing a podium with the Senate emblem on it, waving his hand happily, and another man whose photos were repeatedly circulated on social media wearing a fur hat with bison horns and his war-painted body.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed an indictment against 13 people involved in the riots, including a state legislator from the state of West Virginia and a man who took part in a break-in at the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Washington Police have released wanted posters of dozens of bus and train rioters The bottom of the city.