NEW YORK \u2014 A person who authorities say deployed an incendiary device outside a New York federal building Monday morning was taken into custody, the FBI said.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
A person who authorities say deployed an incendiary device outside a New York federal building has been taken into custody
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The FBI says in a statement that its New York Joint Terrorism Task Force was investigating the episode Monday morning
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The New York Fire Department said they were called at about 8:30 a.m. and initial reports were for an outdoor fire
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The building at 26 Federal Plaza houses a number of government offices and an immigration court where many migrants have been arrested after leaving hearings<\/p>\n
The FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force was investigating the eruption of smoke and flames outside of 26 Federal Plaza, the FBI said in a statement. The New York Fire Department said they were called at about 8:30 a.m. and initial reports were for an outdoor fire.<\/p>\n
The individual in custody, whose name has not been released, was carrying anti-ICE material, according to preliminary information gathered by law enforcement and described by a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation by name.<\/p>\n
The Fire Department said one person was transported to the hospital but their injuries weren’t life-threatening.<\/p>\n
“What occurred outside 26 Federal Plaza this morning was deeply disturbing,” New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on social media. “I’m relieved no one was seriously injured and that a suspect is in custody.”<\/p>\n
Mamdani said his team was in touch with police and will support the federal investigation.<\/p>\n
The building at 26 Federal Plaza houses a number of government offices \u2014 including the New York office of the FBI \u2014 and an immigration court where many migrants have been arrested after leaving hearings.<\/p>\n
Videos and photos from the scene showed a fire with a plume of smoke on the sidewalk outside the building, as well as officers restraining a person and taking them away. ___<\/p>\n
Associated Press Reporters Jamie Stengle in Dallas and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 A person who authorities say deployed an incendiary device outside a New York federal building…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105,117,387,25,118,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,110,308,27],"class_list":["post-300799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-nnt","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300799","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=300799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}