A Minnesota man was arrested after allegedly showing up Wednesday night at a New York federal jail while claiming to be an FBI agent and saying he had a court order from a judge to release Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare
CEO Brian Thompson, according to a new criminal complaint Thursday.
The man, 36-year-old Mark Anderson of Mankato, when asked by Bureau of Prisons personnel at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn for his credentials, produced a Minnesota driver's license, prosecutors said. Mangione is being held at that jail without bail.
Anderson also allegedly said he had weapons in a bag he was carrying. Inside the bag was a barbecue fork and a circular steel blade, which resembled a pizza cutter, according to the criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn.
"Anderson also displayed and threw at the BOP officers numerous documents," an FBI agent who signed the complaint wrote.
