SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — A man has been arrested after police found homemade incendiary devices and guns in his car in the parking lot of a Mississippi church.
Jason Moncrief, 41, was charged Thursday with trespassing at the Southaven church and remained jailed Friday in DeSoto County, just south of Memphis, Tennessee.
Mike Knight is a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He says materials are being tested, but there's no indication Moncrief was targeting the 10,000-member Brown Missionary Baptist Church.
Southaven Police Lt. Mark Little says officials at the church had complained about a trespasser at the rear of their property in recent days.
An officer stopped Moncrief, who said he was using the church parking lot to access family land. Police then found the guns and explosives.
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