Metropolitan Detention Center<\/a>, where Mangione is detained, and falsely claimed he was an FBI agent with paperwork signed by a judge that authorized the release of a specific MDC detainee, charging papers say.\u00a0<\/p>\nThat detainee, according to a law enforcement source, was 27-year-old Luigi Mangione, who stands accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan in late 2024.
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The Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, where Mangione is held. File photo by Gabriele Holtermann\n<\/p>\n
When asked for credentials, Anderson presented a Minnesota driver\u2019s license and then said he had weapons on him. In his backpack were a large barbecue fork and round steel blade, the likeness of a pizza cutter, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
The Minnesota man had traveled to New York City for a job opportunity that didn\u2019t pan out and has since been working at a pizzeria, the law enforcement source said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
Anderson, who was then arrested himself, will appear in front of a federal judge in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon.\n<\/p>\n
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.\n<\/p>\n
This story originally appeared on Brooklyn Paper\u2019s sister site amNewYork<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested for allegedly trying to break Luigi Mangione out of a Brooklyn jail. urtis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[101,98,100,99,303,3534,3130,51578,6974,51579,15009,11623,9,24,12,370,63,43811,8098,7125],"class_list":["post-116691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-arrest","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-federal-court","tag-jail","tag-jailbreak","tag-luigi-mangione","tag-mark-anderson","tag-mdc","tag-metropolitan-detention-center","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-police-and-crime","tag-prison","tag-sunset-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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