Overview
- U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed federal murder and weapons counts, removing the death-penalty option while leaving stalking charges in place.
- Prosecutors say a 36-year-old identified as Mark Anderson tried to enter Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center posing as an FBI agent to secure Luigi Mangione’s release.
- Staff detained Anderson after he produced only a Minnesota driver’s license and claimed to have weapons; a search turned up a grill fork and a round steel blade photographed as a pizza cutter.
- Anderson was arrested on a federal impersonation charge and ordered held, with court filings and prior records describing past drug- and alcohol-related convictions and reported mental illness.
- Jury selection in the federal case is scheduled for September 8, prosecutors have asked to start earlier on July 1, and separate state proceedings continue after earlier terrorism and premeditated murder counts were dropped.