{"id":300651,"date":"2026-07-20T15:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300651\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:01:07","slug":"person-in-custody-after-incendiary-device-explodes-outside-nyc-federal-building-fbi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300651\/","title":{"rendered":"Person in custody after &#8216;incendiary device&#8217; explodes outside NYC federal building: FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (TNND)  \u2014 One person was taken into custody on Monday morning after an &#8220;incendiary device&#8221; exploded outside a federal building in New York City, according to the FBI. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This morning an individual deployed an incendiary device outside of 26 Federal Plaza,&#8221; the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/fbi-alleges-suspect-deployed-incendiary-device-outside-federal-building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Fox News<\/a>. &#8220;The individual has been taken into custody and the FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NYPD also confirmed to the outlet that there was a &#8220;found firearm&#8221; in connection with the event, but didn&#8217;t confirm if it was found on the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/eoir\/new-york-federal-plaza-immigration-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">building in Manhattan <\/a>houses dozens of agencies, including the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. <\/p>\n<p>Video of the scene on social media showed heavy smoke in front of the building and officers arresting a person on the ground. <\/p>\n<p>Sources also told CBS News that preliminary information indicated there were fireworks in a garbage can that exploded. The fire department responded to extinguish the flames. <\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news web will be updated with further information when it is released. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (TNND) \u2014 One person was taken into custody on Monday morning after an &#8220;incendiary device&#8221; exploded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-300651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300651","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=300651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}