WASHINGTON: A man who claimed to have a bomb in a pickup truck near the US Capitol told a federal judge on Friday that he did not take his brain medicine and was ordered to undergo a mental aptitude hearing.
Floyd Ray Roseberry appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Washington and was charged with threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to use an explosive device. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to life imprisonment.
Roseberry drove a black pickup truck onto the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress at about 9:15 a.m. Thursday and began shouting to people in the street that it had a bomb. He later made the same bomb threats to police officers and admitted to a litany of anti-government complaints as part of a bizarre episode, which he live-streamed to a Facebook audience.
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 brain medicine. Roseberry said that I had not been here for the past one week, but later said that 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.
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