'Ready for civil war': Cops find conspiracist's car packed with pipe bombs

A central Illinois man was arrested after officers found two pipe bombs and a pistol under his seat during a traffic stop.

A Pekin police officer pulled over a car on May 17 for a traffic violation and spotted a canvas bag locked with a padlock under the passenger seat where Dalton Mattus was sitting. Police found a 45 caliber pistol and two homemade pipe bombs rigged with BBs after obtaining a warrant to search the bag, reported Rolling Stone.

The 34-year-old Mattus had refused to let police search the bag without a warrant...