By Steve Neavling
A contractor working at the FBI’s headquarters is accused of stealing a bureau car from the building’s basement garage on Tuesday.
John C. Worrell III, 39, was arrested hours after driving to another FBI facility in Northern Virginia in the dark green four-door Ford sedan, CBS News reports.
He was charged with theft of government property.
Inside the car, authorities found a loaded handgun magazine and credentials belonging to the agent who typically drove the vehicle.
After driving to the FBI facility in Vienna, Va., Worrell tried to gain access by showing the credentials of the federal agent whose car was stolen, authorities said. He “claimed to have a classified meeting at the Vienna FBI facility,” but lacked the required access cards, according to court documents.
While Worrell isn’t an FBI agent or law enforcement officer, he was authorized to be at the bureau’s headquarters in Washington D.C. because he was a contractor.
Later, Worrell told investigators that he “believed he had been receiving coded messages, which appeared in various forms including e-mails, ‘stage whispering,’ and a variety of different context clues over the course of several weeks, indicating that [he] was in danger, and thus he was attempting to go to a secure facility where he could be ‘safe,'” according to the court documents.
