A man arrested after police found pipe bombs in a vehicle has frequently posted conspiracies about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and immigrants.
city infamous in the area for being a former sundowner town, a Pekin police officer pulled over a car for a traffic violation, according to an affidavit. Dalton Mattus, 34, was a passenger inside the vehicle, and police say they found a canvas bag under his seat locked with a padlock. When an officer asked what was in the bag, Mattus reportedly said the officer would have to get a warrant to find out.
Among the hundreds of posts Mattus shared over the past several years were his willingness to “go to civil war,” and his support forranging from chemtrails, to QAnon, to election lies, and sweeping anti-government conspiracies. In March 2023, Mattus changed his profile picture to an upside-down American flag with the phrase, “We are not OK.”“To everybody that is disgusted with the way our government is being ran,” Mattus said in an April 2023 TikTok video.
Since June 2020, Mattus has posted multiple times a day about nearly every right-wing conspiracy imaginable, including posts about gun control efforts, the pandemic, the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and QAnon-fueled claims of rampant pedophilia among Democrats. “I am completely disgusted that people voted for Joe Biden to be the president,” Mattus wrote on Facebook days after the 2020 election, calling Biden a “fucking child molester,” an unfounded QAnon claim.
“If it was up to me I would gather patriots and go to civil war against these domestic terrorist ,” Mattus wrote on Facebook on September 5, 2020. In March 2023, Mattus said it was time “to fight before it comes to your front door directly.”
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