{"id":301350,"date":"2026-07-21T00:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301350\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T00:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:56:13","slug":"man-in-custody-after-fire-outside-26-federal-plaza-in-manhattan-northwest-national-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301350\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in custody after fire outside 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan | Northwest &#038; National News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">NEW YORK \u2014 A man was taken into custody after police said he started a fire outside 26 Federal Plaza, where flames spread before crews put them out short of the building.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Lower Manhattan building houses dozens of federal agencies, including the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Law enforcement sources who spoke with NBC New York reported the man had a &#8220;Makeshift incendiary device&#8221; made of fireworks and a flammable liquid.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Early findings showed the suspect was also carrying two types of guns that appeared to be realistic-looking BB guns or airsoft guns.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Police said the person was believed to be a protester with a history of anti-ICE activity.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Firefighters confirmed four people suffered minor injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 A man was taken into custody after police said he started a fire outside 26&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[303,545,114174,8041,267,75,84,83,3009,9,24,71209,63,104,420],"class_list":["post-301350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-crime","tag-fire","tag-jacob-k-javits-federal-building","tag-law-enforcement","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-national-security","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nonstop-local","tag-nyc","tag-police","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301350","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=301350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}