A man claimed he had a bomb in a pickup truck near the US Capitol, leading to an hour-long standoff with evacuation and police, threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction and using an explosive device. accused of attempting If found guilty, he could be sentenced to life imprisonment.
Floyd Ray Roseberry appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Washington on Friday and said he had not taken his “brain drug.” He was ordered to undergo a mental aptitude hearing.
Roseberry drove a black pickup truck onto the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress at about 9.15 a.m. Thursday, and reportedly began shouting at people in the street that it had a bomb. He later made the same bomb threats to police officers and accepted a litany of anti-government complaints while live-streaming them to Facebook viewers.
Roseberry surrendered after about five hours. Police later searched the vehicle and said that they did not find the bomb but had collected possible material to make the bomb.
At a court hearing on Friday, Roseberry, 49, of Grover, North Carolina, told the judge he didn’t fully understand what was happening because he was denied medication while in custody. Roseberry told the judge that he went to school until eighth grade and later earned a GED diploma.
He said he had not received medicine for his blood pressure and his “mind medicine”. Roseberry said he had “been denied it for the past week,” but later said it had been two days.
He was taken into police custody about 24 hours before he appeared in the court.
Magistrate Judge Zia Farooqui ordered Rosebery to undergo a competent hearing and ordered her to be detained without bond.
Roseberry is due back in court on Wednesday.