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Police Swarm Home Of Cleveland County Man Arrested After D.C. Bomb Threat

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Police say a Grover, North Carolina man said he had a bomb outside the Library of Congress on Thursday.
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A Cleveland County man is in custody after he claimed to have a bomb in his pickup truck in front of the Library of Congress on Thursday.

Grover is about 40 miles west of Charlotte.
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Floyd Ray Roseberry surrendered to police after a standoff that prompted the evacuations of nearby government buildings.

Federal and local law enforcement descended on his house in Cleveland County.

Tina Haskin lives in the Cleveland County town of Grover, across the street from Roseberry.

She says she was shocked and scared when law enforcement started swarming the area.
Haskin says Roseberry was a friendly neighbor — they waved at each other occasionally and she cut his grass for him once.

"We’ve been noticin’ here lately that he's just been lettin’ his place go," Haskin said. "I mean, the grass is growin’ up and he’s in and out a lot. I see him go up and down the road a lot.”

Officers say Roseberry drove a black pickup onto the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress and told an officer he had a bomb.

Police say no bomb was found inside the vehicle, but possible bomb-making materials were collected.

A North Carolina man who claimed to have a bomb in his truck in front of the Library of Congress gave up after an hours-long standoff with police and is now in custody. No bomb was found in the truck.

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Claire Donnelly is WFAE's health reporter. She previously worked at NPR member station KGOU in Oklahoma and also interned at WBEZ in Chicago and WAMU in Washington, D.C. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and attended college at the University of Virginia, where she majored in Comparative Literature and Spanish. Claire is originally from Richmond, Virginia. Reach her at cdonnelly@wfae.org or on Twitter @donnellyclairee.