NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A person deployed an \u201cincendiary device\u201d Monday morning outside a New York building housing an immigration court and other federal offices before being taken into custody at the scene, the FBI said.<\/p>\n
The FBI said its New York Joint Terrorism Task Force was investigating the eruption of smoke and flames outside of 26 Federal Plaza, which has become a focal point for demonstrations against the immigration policies of President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/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 New York Fire Department said it was called at about 8:30 a.m., and initial reports indicated an outdoor fire. One person was transported to the hospital, but their injuries weren\u2019t life-threatening, the department said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat occurred outside 26 Federal Plaza this morning was deeply disturbing,\u201d New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on social media. \u201cI\u2019m relieved no one was seriously injured and that a suspect is in custody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mamdani said his team was in touch with police and will support the federal investigation.<\/p>\n
The building in Lower Manhattan houses several government offices \u2014 including the New York office of the FBI \u2014 and the immigration court<\/a> where agents have carried out chaotic<\/a> and sometimes violent<\/a> arrests in the hallway as migrants leave 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 Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A person deployed an \u201cincendiary device\u201d Monday morning outside a New York building housing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[419,544,417,2301,114292,1075,9,24,55,54,56,87,7703,3694,421],"class_list":["post-301204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-courts","tag-fires","tag-general-news","tag-immigration","tag-incendiary-new-york-federal-building-immigration","tag-military-and-defense","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-politics","tag-protests-and-demonstrations","tag-terrorism","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301204","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=301204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}