Armed Man Said Voices Told Him To Drive To FBI Building: NJ Police

NORTH WILDWOOD, NJ — An armed Missouri man driving a stolen car was stopped by North Wildwood police on a journey to a FBI building in Virginia, claiming that voices in his head were telling him to go there, according to a news release.

Michael Brisby, 36, encountered a North Wildwood police officer on patrol on Jan. 10 near 330 W. Spruce Ave., officials said.

Brisby, a resident of St. Joseph, MO, asked the officer for help with his car and explained that he had gotten lost traveling from Missouri to the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Building in Langley, VA.

The car Brisby was driving had been reported stolen out of Pennsylvania, and he also made "concerning statements" regarding his past experience building explosives, police said.

Brisby also said he was driving to the FBI building because he had voices in his head telling him to do so, police said.

A search warrant was executed on the car and found no explosives, but a Glock 43x handgun was discovered, police said.

Brisby was charged with multiple offenses including fugitive from justice, certain persons not to possess weapons, unlawful possession of weapons, receiving stolen motor vehicle and receiving stolen property. He was placed on a warrant and taken to the Cape May County Correctional Facility.