Police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana found drugs, guns, bomb-making materials and explosive devices during a search of a mobile home owned by a member of the local Ku Klux Klan.

The search was carried out December 31 as police probed the reported killing of a local Klan leader in Louisiana. Police have arrested two men, one on weapons and related charges and another for writing bad checks, as part of an ongoing investigation into Klan activities in the Baton Rouge area.

Police received a call on December 20 from a woman who claimed her son, Scott Ayers, had been shot and killed in Baton Rouge. Investigators discovered that the 26-year-old Ayers was Imperial Wizard of the Circle Six Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, headquartered in Baton Rouge.

Police believe Ayers may be alive and that he may have faked his death in order to avoid arrest for writing bad checks.

Police, deputies and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents searched a mobile home where they believed Ayers might have been hiding. Instead of Ayers, the law enforcement officers discovered 19 firearms, marijuana, 50 pounds of smokeless gunpowder, two explosive devices and Ku Klux Klan robes and paraphernalia.

Forrest Broussard, 25, the trailer's resident, was arrested on two counts of manufacture/possession of a bomb, one count of possession of marijuana and one count of illegal possession of a firearm with a controlled dangerous substance.

John Wall, 22, was arrested on December 21 as he drove away from the trailer on a count of issuing worthless checks. Wall told police that he is the Six Circle Knights' "nighthawk" while Broussard is the group's "klaliff" or vice president.

Police have not yet found Ayers.

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