Brady thanks Capitol Police for response to bomb threat, keeping 'those working on Capitol Hill safe'

Authorities responded to a bomb threat near the U.S. Capitol on the morning of Aug. 19, resulting in the arrest of a North Carolina man, identified as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry.

According to the Associated Press, the man claimed to have a bomb in his pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol Thursday, Aug. 19, before surrendering to law enforcement after an hourslong standoff. The threat was met with massive police response and the evacuation of multiple government businesses in the area. 

"Thank you to @CapitolPolice, @FBI and @DCPoliceDept who responded to the scene and kept all those working on Capitol Hill safe today," U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-The Woodlands) wrote in a tweet. 

The Associated Press also took to social media to break the news of the events taking place on Capitol Hill.

"BREAKING: The man who claimed to have a bomb in a truck near the Library of Congress has surrendered to law enforcement, ending an hourslong standoff," AP wrote in a tweet.

Police were alerted to the situation after Kelsey Campbell, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison visiting Washington as part of a class trip, said she and another student encountered Roseberry around 9:20 a.m. outside the nearby Supreme Court building, which prompted Campbell to contact authorities. 

“He said, ‘Hey, call the police, tell them to evacuate this street, and I’ll give you all this money,’” Campbell recounted to The AP. “I said, 'No!’ and he threw the money at us and we started running.”

A day before the incident, AP reports that pipe bombs had been left at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee in Washington, but no arrests have been made, and it is unclear if Roseberry was involved. 

According to AP, the nation’s capital has been tense since the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, and this is the third time in many weeks that military and federal law enforcement has been called in to respond to attacks or the potential of. 

AP reports that it is Roseberry's ex-wife that helped to identify him as a suspect.