Lonnie Leroy Coffman, Firearms Offenses, Alabama 2021

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Alabama Man Sentenced for Firearms Offenses in Washington D.C.

Birmingham, Ala. – Lonnie Leroy Coffman, 72, of Falkville, Alabama, was sentenced to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty to federal and local firearms offenses stemming from the discovery of weapons in his pickup truck parked near the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Coffman admitted in his plea agreement that he exited the pickup truck at 9:20 a.m. and walked in the direction of the U.S. Capitol Building, and towards a rally near the National Mall. Inside the pickup truck were several loaded firearms within arms-reach of the driver’s seat, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, large-capacity ammunition feeding devices, a crossbow with bolts, machetes, camouflage smoke devices, a stun gun, and a cooler containing 11 mason jars filled with ignitable ingredients for Molotov cocktail incendiary weapons. Coffman also carried a loaded handgun and a loaded revolver as he walked around the area that day.

A search of Coffman’s residence in Alabama later that month led to the discovery of 12 additional mason jars containing ignitable substances, each constituting the component parts of Molotov cocktails.

Coffman did not have a license to carry a pistol in the District of Columbia and had not registered any firearms or destructive devices in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, as required by law.

Coffman has been in custody since his arrest on January 6, 2021. Coffman will be placed on three years of supervised release following his prison term.

The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama, and the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. The case was investigated by the FBI’s Birmingham and Washington Field Offices, and the U.S. Capitol Police.

The defendant pleaded guilty on November 12, 2021, to two counts of possession of an unregistered firearm, a federal offense, and carrying a pistol without a license, a District of Columbia offense.