Stillwater man told Minnesota police, FBI that his homemade explosives were for rocket hobby

A 46-year-old Stillwater man found with a trove of homemade explosives and hundreds of rounds of high-powered ammunition is part of an anti-government movement and claimed to authorities that he was not subject to certain criminal laws, according to the FBI.

Wayne Robert Lund, indicted by a grand jury on multiple weapons charges this week, also claimed that the explosive devices found in his car and in subsequent searches elsewhere were used for his hobby of setting off rockets in western Wisconsin.

Lund has been in custody since Oak Park Heights police arrested him near the Wisconsin border last month upon discovering that his driver’s license had been revoked and his vehicle registration was expired. Since then, according to newly unsealed federal criminal charges, state and federal law enforcement have uncovered numerous small homemade explosives called “cricket bombs,” more than 800 rounds of high-velocity ammunition and documents affiliated with a Minnesota chapter of the so-called sovereign citizen movement.

Read more: Minneapolis Star Tribune