If convicted, Floyd Ray Roseberry of North Carolina could face a sentence of up to life in prison.
, prompting evacuations and an hourslong standoff with police, told a federal judge Friday he has not taken his “mind medication” and was ordered to undergo a mental competency hearing.
Roseberry, 49, of Grover, North Carolina, drove a black pickup truck onto the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress around 9:15 a.m. Thursday and began shouting to people in the street that he had a bomb. He later made the same bomb threats to police officers and professed a litany of anti-government grievances as part of a bizarre episode that he live-streamed for a Facebook audience.
Roseberry surrendered after about five hours. Police later said they did not find a bomb but did collect possible bomb-making materials.
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