A man claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a federal jail in Brooklyn on Wednesday and told officers he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, according to law enforcement authorities.
Mark Anderson, 36, a Minnesota native who has a history of drug and other arrests and disclosed last year in court papers that he suffers from mental illness, was arrested and charged with impersonating a federal officer in a foiled bid to free Mangione from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park.
At around 6:50pm, Anderson showed up at the MDC jail complex and claimed to uniformed members of the Federal Bureau of Prisons that he was an FBI agent in possession of paperwork “signed by a Judge” authorizing the release of a specific inmate who was in custody at the MDC, according to the complaint filed in court against Anderson.
When asked to provide identification, Anderson presented the officers with his driver's license and other documents, which included a claim against the U.S. Department of Justice.
Once detained, officers searched Anderson's backpack and found large barbecue-type fork and a round steel blade and he was taken into custody, according to the complaint.
