An Arkansas man has been arrested after being found with six homemade pipe bombs, according to court documents.

Lawrence Hickman, 52, was booked into the Benton County Jail on Thursday on six counts of criminal possession of explosive materials or a destructive device. He is being held on a $1 million bond.

According to the arrest affidavit, a woman called Bella Vista police on Dec. 9 to report that Hickman had been harassing her.

Once BVPD arrived at Hickman’s residence, the woman told police she found a bottle of chloroform in a dresser drawer.

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    11 months ago

    Officers spoke with a neighbor who said that Hickman wanted to kayak to the Philippines where his wife was and planned to travel to Alaska, and through the Bering Sea.

    The neighbor told BVPD that the pipe bombs were for sharks and pirates and he had liquor for the Russians, according to the affidavit.

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    11 months ago

    “Officers spoke with a neighbor who said that Hickman wanted to kayak to the Philippines where his wife was and planned to travel to Alaska, and through the Bering Sea.”

    From Arkansas? 🤔

    I mean, I guess he could take the Mississippi down through Mississippi and Louisiana to the Gulf of Mexico, down to the Panama Canal and into the Pacific Ocean, up the coast to Alaska and across that way…

    TECHNICALLY possible.

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    Guy’s gotta have a hobby!

    BTW: he had liquor for the Russians, but what did he have for the Chinese?

    BBTW: Sounds like a great funding pitch for a Nat Geo doco. If I was a multi millionaire I’d help him make it a reality. Even if he was just talking shit to avoid jail, I’d work it out with the judge and make him attempt it.

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      11 months ago

      He was planning to give liquor to the Russians so I can only imagine he planned to give the Chinese soy sauce.

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        11 months ago

        Who would we get to narrate the film?

        James Earl Jones?

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    11 months ago

    As an Arkansas resident, I hate hearing Arkansas on the national stage. It’s never good.