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By Rich Schapiro
</section>The man accused of driving a pickup truck filled with Molotov cocktails and
other deadly weapons to the nation?s capital lives in a brick ranch house in the backwoods of Alabama.
Lonnie Coffman had no criminal record. No apparent social media accounts. And no city officials or law enforcement in the area had ever come into contact with him.
?I don?t know him, never heard of him and I haven?t heard of anybody that did know him,? said Ken Winkles, mayor of the 1,300-person town of Falkville, where Coffman?s mail is delivered.
More than 50 people have been arrested on federal charges in the days after a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Coffman?s face was not among those that
have gone viral, and it?s not even clear if he breached the building. But he stands out for the sheer amount of weaponry he brought to Washington.
The 70-year-old Alabama man with no criminal history or known extremist ties represents the worst nightmare for law enforcement, experts say ? an apparent lone wolf who operated completely under the radar.
?These are the people who keep law enforcement up at night,? said Clint Van Zandt, a former FBI criminal profiler and an NBC News analyst. ?I used to go to bed thinking, ?Did I do everything I could? Have I looked for this? Have I looked for that?? But what do you look for in a guy like this??
