WASHINGTON — A person who prompted evacuations and an hourslong standoff with police on Capitol Hill when he claimed he had a Bomb in his pickup truck outdoors the Library of Congress pleaded responsible on Friday to a charge of threatening to use an explosive.

Floyd Ray Roseberry, of Grover, North Carolina, pleaded responsible to the felony cost in Washington federal court docket. He faces as much as 10 years behind bars and is scheduled to be sentenced in June.

An e-mail in search of remark was despatched to his legal professional on Friday.

Roseberry, 52, drove a black pickup truck onto the sidewalk outdoors the Library of Congress in August 2021 and commenced shouting to folks on the street that he had a bomb. He later made the identical bomb threats to law enforcement officials and professed a litany of antigovernment grievances as a part of a weird episode that he livestreamed for a Fb viewers.

Police later stated they didn’t discover a bomb however did accumulate potential bomb-making supplies. Roseberry surrendered after about 5 hours.

Throughout an preliminary court docket look, Roseberry informed the decide he had not taken his “thoughts medication” and the decide ordered a psychological competency listening to.

A psychiatrist discovered that medicine that Roseberry had been taking wasn’t successfully treating his recognized bipolar dysfunction. A Justice of the Peace decide later dominated that the brand new remedy had been efficient and Roseberry was competent to face trial.