A Minnesota man was arrested Wednesday night for impersonating an FBI agent in a failed attempt to free Luigi Mangione from a New York City federal prison, according to a new criminal complaint.
The suspect, identified as 36-year-old Mark Anderson, allegedly claimed to have an order “signed by a judge” to release Mangione, charged in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. When asked for his credentials, the man showed his Minnesota driver’s license and said he had weapons in his bag.
Bureau of Prisons officers found a barbecue fork and a “circular steel blade resembling a pizza cutter,” the Thursday court filing states.
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Anderson then threw documents at the officers before he was promptly arrested. An FBI agent
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