Two Coffee County Residents Arrested for Planning Attack on Research Facility

Two men from Coffee County, 22-year-old James Dryden Jr., and 30-year-old Michael Mancil were taken into custody by local investigators last Thursday for conspiring to break into a research facility in Alaska.
They believed a conspiracy theory that suggested that the facility (the High Frequency Active Aural Research Facility; owned by the University of Alaska) was being used as a base by a secret organization. They believed that technology in the facility was used to control everything from weather patterns to peoples’ mind. They even believed that souls were being trapped by machines in the facility.
In reality, the facility is used to study radio waves and the Earth’s ionosphere.
Police seized several firearms, flak jackets, radios, over $5,000 in cash, almost 3,000 rounds of ammunition, and a small quantity of marijuana from the two men.
The exact charges that Dryden and Mancil will face are not yet known, but will include drug possession and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.