{"id":136854,"date":"2026-02-18T00:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136854\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:30:50","slug":"man-who-tried-to-free-luigi-mangione-with-pizza-cutter-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136854\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Tried To Free Luigi Mangione With Pizza Cutter Pleads Not Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK CITY \u2014 A 36-year-old man who tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail in Brooklyn by attempting to impersonate an FBI agent last month has pleaded not guilty to charges on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/man-allegedly-break-luigi-mangione-jail-impersonating-fbi\/story?id=129679620\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to ABC News<\/a>, Anderson claimed to have paperwork authorizing the release of Mangione. When asked by federal authorities to provide credentials, Anderson allegedly showed them his Minnesota driver&#8217;s license. <\/p>\n<p>He is accused of throwing stacks of papers at BOP officers, who found a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter inside the bag he was carrying. Anderson was promptly taken into custody. <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened before Mangione&#8217;s appearance in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson had been working in a pizza parlor in the city before the incident, the New York Post reported. <\/p>\n<p>Mangione is accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/midtown-nyc\/man-shot-killed-midtown-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">murdering<\/a> United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown in December 2024 and then leading police on a five-day manhunt. <\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old also faces charges in Pennsylvania for possessing an illegal gun and giving a fake ID to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson is due back in court on Friday. He faces up to three years in prison if convicted of impersonating an FBI agent. <\/p>\n<p> An investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY \u2014 A 36-year-old man who tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail in Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-136854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136854","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=136854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}