Overview
- A federal complaint says Mark Anderson, a 35-year-old from Minnesota, arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center around 6:50 p.m. claiming he had judge-signed papers to release Mangione.
- Detention staff asked for credentials, Anderson produced a Minnesota driver's license, declared he was armed, and then threw documents at Bureau of Prisons officers.
- Agents found a barbecue fork and a circular pizza-cutter blade in Anderson's backpack, and he was taken into custody for impersonating an agent and attempting an unauthorized release.
- Anderson is detained and expected to appear in federal court in Brooklyn, while authorities report no evidence of an organized plot connecting him to Mangione.
- In a separate development, the judge in Mangione's case ruled out the death penalty exposure and allowed items seized from his backpack at arrest to be used as evidence, with his federal trial scheduled for October.