EXCLUSIVE: Illinois Trump fanatic being tracked by the Secret Service for making death threats against Joe Biden is arrested after showing up at New York's USS Intrepid with 18 knives (5 Pics)

A Trump fanatic from Illinois who was on the Secret Service's radar for making a death threat against Joe Biden was arrested Wednesday afternoon after she drove into Manhattan armed with 18 knives, pulled up near the USNS Comfort hospital ship and manically declared 'I'm the coronavirus!' sources exclusively told DailyMail.com.

Jessica Prim, 37, of Peoria, driving a silver Toyota Tundra with Illinois license plates, initially pulled up to the USS Intrepid museum, a few blocks south of the USNS Comfort, a hospital ship that was sent to New York Harbor to aid in the coronavirus fight.

A security guard for the Intrepid flagged down NYPD cops, who were stationed nearby. As the officers approached, Prim was breathing heavily and trembling, while uttering a series of cryptic comments. 

She broadcast much of the exchange on Facebook Live. 'I felt like I had to come here to this ship because I need help,' Prim cried in the video. 'I feel like I'm the coronavirus.' 

'No, you're not the coronavirus,' one of the officers replied, and tried to sooth her. 'Hey listen, Jessica, we're here to help.'

They called for an ambulance and then discovered that she was wanted by the Secret Service for making threats against former Vice President Biden, as well as Hillary Clinton and lobbyist Tony Podesta. 

A law enforcement alert had been issued earlier in the day with her name and license number.

Prim posted a message on Facebook hours earlier stating: 'Hillary Clinton and her assistant, Joe Biden and Tony podesta need to be taken out in the name of Babylon! I can't be set free without them gone. Wake me up!!!!!'

Her Facebook features a series of live rants during a drive that went on for hours and apparently began in her home state.

On Tuesday, she blasted the governor of Illinois for his decision to extend the state's stay at home order by another month. 

'One of the most corrupt governors that I've ever experienced,' she wrote in one posting. 'Why are we shut down. President Trump open up the country May 1st. Why do we have 30 more days to wait. What is this governor so scared of. I left but I will be back.'

Prim posted a message to Facebook hours before her arrest stating: 'Hillary Clinton and her assistant, Joe Biden and Tony podesta need to be taken out in the name of Babylon!'

Prim live streamed her arrest on Facebook Live where she could be seen telling officers, 'I am the coronavirus'

During Prim's apparent road trip from her home state to New York, Prim flooded her Facebook page with messages of support for the president

Prim identified herself as an entertainer who goes by the stage name Nikita Steele

During her apparent road trip, Prim flooded her Facebook page with laudatory videos featuring Trump and messages of support for the president.

'I trust Trump!!!!' she wrote.

'Do not touch our president Donald Trump,' she declared in another.

'Give me strength God,' she wrote hours before showing up on the West Side, reacting to a May 2010 tweet she posted from the president that states: 'My campaign for president was conclusively spied on. Nothing like this has ever happened in American politics. A really bad situation. TREASON means long jail sentences, and this was TREASON!'

Prim also blasted some of Trump's favorite political targets and spread conspiracy theories about them.

In one Facebook Live session, she described a 'dark web' video she purportedly saw in which 'Hillary Clinton and her assistant tied up some girl to a tree, cut her face off, tore her intestines out, hung it around their neck and was dancing around.'

'You've got to understand that all hell's about to break loose on this planet and you're going to have to stand up for yourself and your kids,' she added. 'God will judge who the good ones are.'

'I really trust Trump,' she continued. 'He really helps me figure this out.'

She also took a cryptic shot at the mayor of New York for a tweet he wrote Tuesday calling for mourners to be fined or arrested for crowding a rabbi's funeral in Brooklyn. She added, cryptically, 'They're trying to stop me from getting to the president!!!!!'

She also spoke of torture she said she and a sibling endured as children, claiming she was 'burned' and 'tranquilized.'

Prim, who is seen in a previous mugshot, was charged with 18 counts of criminal possession of a weapon, and unlawful possession of marijuana

After she pulled up to the Intrepid on Wednesday, cops were struggling to make sense of her statements.

'I'm really scared,' Prim told them. 'I'm like right by Hell's Kitchen, you guys, so I'm terrified that they're going to burn me. I'm so scared. Please God, please help me.'

The officers asked her to explain why she was so unsettled.

'You should really look to my Facebook, it will explain everything,' she said.

She told cops that she was at home a couple weeks ago, decorating costumes, and that, 'I was watching the press conferences with Donald Trump on TV. I felt like he was talking to me, okay?'

As she rambled on, one of the cops asked, 'Are you taking any medications?'

Prim told them she smokes marijuana regularly. She cried and initially resisted as officers told her to step out of the vehicle. 

'I want you know I'm on Facebook Live right now, okay?' she said. 'Don't open the door because I'm on Facebook Live.'

She eventually emerged. An officer placed her in handcuffs, explaining it was 'for your safety and mine.'

She acknowledged there were knives in the truck. Authorities searched and found several, including ninja throwing stars.

Prim was taken to a hospital in Manhattan for evaluation. She was charged with 18 counts of criminal possession of a weapon, and unlawful possession of marijuana.

The Secret Service declined to comment to DailyMail.com, referring calls to the NYPD.