{"id":300652,"date":"2026-07-20T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300652\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:02:13","slug":"person-arrested-outside-manhattans-26-federal-plaza-for-setting-off-fireworks-pulling-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300652\/","title":{"rendered":"Person arrested outside Manhattan&#8217;s 26 Federal Plaza for setting off fireworks, pulling gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect was taken into federal custody outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/eoir\/new-york-federal-plaza-immigration-court\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">26 Federal Plaza<\/a> in Lower Manhattan Monday morning after setting off fireworks and menacing passersby with a gun, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, pulling a cart with a sign reading \u201cICE off our streets,\u201d started a fire that set off fireworks, causing a smoke condition, about 8:30 a.m. The suspect also pulled a gun and menaced people near him, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD Bomb Squad responded to the scene and the suspect was arrested at the scene, Worth St. near Centre St., police said.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the cart were two long guns and more fireworks, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect was taken into federal custody outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan Monday morning after setting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-300652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300652","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=300652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}