EXCLUSIVE: 'I was afraid of him and knew he was nuts!' Neighbor of man who threatened Capitol with fake bomb says the Trump supporter would regularly set off explosives to intimidate him in long-running feud over land
The Trump supporter who showed up at Capitol Hill claiming he had a bomb in his truck regularly set off explosives to terrify locals in a long-running feud, his neighbor has exclusively told DailyMail.com.
Landowner Wayne Davis said he was terrified for his safety after having a falling out with Floyd Ray Roseberry, 49, who drove his black pick-up on to a sidewalk outside the Library of Congress Thursday while demanding to speak to President Joe Biden.
Davis claimed Roseberry would set off up to 400 rounds of ammunition indiscriminately when he was around as part of a campaign to intimidate him.
The property owner fell out with Roseberry over a land lease deal when Roseberry wanted to set up a deer sanctuary near his six-acre home in Grover, North Carolina.
The Capitol was on lockdown Thursday while police negotiated with Trump supporter Floyd Ray Roseberry, 49, from North Carolina
Roseberry's neighbor Wayne Davis, 66, tells DailyMail.com he was scared for his safety after having a falling out with him
The FBI and North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation sent their bomb squads to inspect the home of Roseberry. All accesses to Roseberry's isolated home were still sealed off by police and the FBI yesterday while investigations continued
Davis, 66, took the land back because he didn't agree with its use – sparking a terrifying feud between the accused 'bomber' and local deer hunters.
'I would be hunting deer with friends on my land and suddenly he would be on his, next to us, and he would shoot three of four hundred rounds of ammo,' said Davis.
'Then he started shooting off either Tannerite or dynamite. It would just make your hair fly back when it went off.
Davis said his mother had owned Roseberry's house and he sold it to the accused 'bomber' nine years ago after she died. He said Roseberry bought it with Janay Yarbrough (pictured) who is his wife according to some reports
'I was afraid of him. Because when we were hunting, he was just shooting like crazy on his land. You didn't know where the bullets would be going. You just didn't know.
'I would make sure I had a lot of cover between me and where he was shooting from.
'He's been doing all that shooting and blowing up stuff for like two years. Officers have talked to him in the past about it. But he told them he was trying to scare the coyotes so they wouldn't kill his goats.'
Tannerite was the bomb material Roseberry claimed he had in his truck. Washington, DC cops said they did not find a bomb following the five-hour standoff – but did find possible bomb-making materials.
Davis added: 'I told the police he was supposed to be getting the Tannerite explosive from some guy that worked at Reliance Electric, a plant near here. They just shut.'
The land owner revealed the background of the feud by saying: 'Me and him fell out several years ago. I tried to be friends with him, but he's hard to be friends with.
'I have 82 acres and I leased him some land. He said he wanted it for deer hunting, but then said he was starting a deer preserve, where nobody could shoot deer. And that didn't suit me so I quit renting it to him. And that's when he got real hateful to me.
'He expressed his dislike of me taking the land away from him. He didn't like me after that, at all.
'I was afraid of that guy. I thought he would physically harm me. And I knew he was nuts. I could tell he wasn't right.'
Roseberry later made the same bomb threats to police officers and professed a litany of antigovernment grievances as part of a bizarre episode that he live-streamed for a Facebook audience
Roseberry is seen with his 'tannerite bomb' as he said on Facebook Live he was waiting for other patriots to join him and that the revolution is 'here'
Davis said his mother had owned Roseberry's house and he sold it to the accused 'bomber' nine years ago after she died. He said Roseberry bought it with Janay Yarbrough, who is his wife according to some reports.
'He and Janay supposedly got married at some point, but I don't know if they did or not,' said Davis.
Tiffany Waldron (pictured), 44, who runs the Carolina Crossing Restaurant in Grover, said: 'The guy was usually so quiet. He'd just come in on his own for his usual cooked breakfast, ham eggs, that kind of thing'
'When the police piled around his house after he posted that video from Washington, I thought, man he must have robbed them banks in Gastonia. When I found out later what really was going on I was stunned, despite what had already happened between us.'
The landowner refused to have his photo taken because of the feud. He said: 'I am fearful of his family also, and I tell you I don't want to confront those people, or deal with them in some kind of way.'
All accesses to Roseberry's isolated home were still sealed off by police and the FBI yesterday while investigations continued.
The owner of a diner where Roseberry used to have breakfast most days said she was shocked when she realized it was one of her customers who had created terror in the nation's capital.
Tiffany Waldron, 44, who runs the Carolina Crossing Restaurant in Grover, said: 'The guy was usually so quiet. He'd just come in on his own for his usual cooked breakfast, ham eggs, that kind of thing.
'I really cannot believe it. I would never has suspected there was something going on with him. No clue at all.'
The FBI and North Carolina investigators unloaded bomb-seeking robots as they inspected Roseberry's home.
Roseberry told a federal judge Friday he has not taken his 'mind medication' and was ordered to undergo a mental competency hearing.
He 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 convicted, he could face a sentence of up to life in prison.
Roseberry surrendered after a five-hour standoff. He told a federal judge Friday he has not taken his 'mind medication' and was ordered to undergo a mental competency hearing
Authorities investigate Roseberry's pickup truck parked on the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress' Thomas Jefferson Building
A law enforcement official in North Carolina had recognized Roseberry and contacted the FBI to tell agents that someone had reported that Roseberry had recently 'expressed anti-government views and an intent to travel to Virginia or Washington, D.C. to conduct acts of violence,' according to court papers.
The person said Roseberry also told them he ordered a trench coat 'to protect him from Taser and pepper ball guns and he would just tip his cowboy hat at the police.'
During the standoff, Roseberry was communicating with police by using a small dry-erase board that he was holding against the driver´s side window of the truck. 'Please don´t shoot the windows the vibe will explode the bomb,' one read, according to court papers.
Roseberry surrendered after about five hours.
In the court hearing Friday, Roseberry told the judge he couldn't fully understand what was happening because he had been denied medication while he was in custody. Roseberry told the judge he had gone to school until the eighth grade and then later earned a GED diploma.
He said he had not received medication for his blood pressure and his 'mind medicine.' Roseberry said he had 'been denied it for the last week I´ve been here,' but later said it had been two days.
He was taken into police custody about 24 hours before he appeared in court.
Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui ordered Roseberry to undergo a competency hearing and ordered him detained without bond.
Roseberry is due back in court Wednesday.
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