US EditionMan allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail by impersonating FBI agent: Sources
Mark Anderson, 36, was arrested after attempting to use fake FBI credentials to release Luigi Mangione, who faces murder charges, from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
- On Wednesday night, a man claiming to be an FBI agent showed up at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, New York, saying he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione and was detained.
- Anderson had traveled from Mankato, Minnesota, about 67 miles southwest of Minneapolis, and was working at a pizzeria after a job opportunity fell through; the Manhattan district attorney's office urged a July 1 trial date for Mangione's state case hours earlier.
- Around 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, Anderson approached the jail intake area, showed a Minnesota driver's license, threw documents, claimed he had weapons, and officers found a barbecue fork and circular steel blade.
- He is expected to appear Thursday in Brooklyn federal court, and prosecutors said they believed police were justified in searching Anderson's backpack after he claimed to have weapons.
- Mangione faces both state and federal murder charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killing, has pleaded not guilty, and the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, holds him while Judge Margaret Garnett rules soon on death penalty issues.
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A man originally from Mankato (Minnesota) has been arrested on Wednesday for posing as an FBI agent to try to free Luigi Mangione from a Brooklyn prison, while carrying a barbecue fork and a knife to cut pizza, as the court records show. Mangione, 27, is awaiting trial, scheduled for September this year, for a murder case with a death penalty, accused of having shot Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO, in Manhattan in 2024.
A man from Minnesota wanted to free a murder suspect from a New York prison as an alleged FBI agent. The plan failed and he was arrested.
Luigi Mangione: Man arrested for posing as FBI agent to free accused murderer from prison
Brooklyn federal prosecutors on Wednesday (January 28, 2026) accused Mark Anderson, 36, of Mankato, Minnesota, of showing up at the Metropolitan Detention Centre and telling prison staff that he was an FBI agent with paperwork signed by a judge authorizing the release of an inmate
While Luigi Mangione is to be tried in October for the murder of the boss of an insurance company, a man tried, without success, to get him to escape from prison last Wednesday A man is
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