OHIO – Police in Ohio have arrested a man who they said was plotting to attack a police station using armed mannequins and explosives.

Police said they were alerted that 51-year-old Timothy Ward was planning to use mannequins to shoot officers and blow up the police station in Marlboro Township, Stark County, about 30 miles outside of Akron.

Federal and local law enforcement officials searched both his and his father’s homes. 

Marlboro Township Police Chief Ron Devies said the FBI told him that they found bomb making materials, but not complete bombs. They also found his Dell computer which contained photos that “corroborate” Ward’s possession of explosive devices and parts of handguns, court records said.

There’s also videos online showing Ward posing with mannequins, and that police have several such videos that were posted online.

Ward was also arrested in 2009 when police found about 20 rifles, shotguns and semi-automatic weapons, boxes of ammunition and bomb-making materials.

Ward’s now-former wife told police that he was up all night talking about demons and saying that the Bible told him he’d been chosen to fight Muslims, according to a Repository article dated Jan. 7, 2009. 

This week he was arrested Ward was arrested on retaliation and weapons charges. It wasn’t immediately known if he has an attorney.