From AP:
PRINCETON, Ill. Authorities in this central Illinois town took a man into custody after he told truckers over a CB radio early Wednesday morning that he intended to drive a van full of explosives to Washington, D.C.
A Cedar Rapids, Iowa, man was driving a van eastbound on Interstate 80 when he used the terms "bomb," "explosive," "Washington, D.C." and "president," over a CB radio, Princeton police Chief Tom Root told the (LaSalle) NewsTribune.
Truck drivers alerted authorities around 3 a.m. after hearing the driver's comments, Root said. "Those statements absolutely lead us to believe that he was a threat," he said. The man was taken into custody at a service station just south of I-80 in Princeton, where he stopped for gasoline, police said.
Local authorities evacuated the station and sealed off the area after officers found "documents, maps and containers" inside the van, police said. They then called in the FBI, Secret Service and state bomb squad to investigate.
Nearby fast food restaurants were evacuated as a precaution, Root said. The 44-year-old man was being held at the Bureau County sheriff's department Wednesday morning, pending an investigation by the Secret Service, according to a police statement.
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