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Man accused of posing as FBI agent in apparent attempt to spring Luigi Mangione from prison

By NBC News  
   January 30, 2026

A Minnesota man was charged Thursday with impersonating an FBI agent after he showed up at a federal prison in New York City claiming to have a court order to release an inmate, identified by a law enforcement source as accused killer Luigi Mangione. Mark Anderson, 35, was arrested at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn late Wednesday after prison workers asked to see his credentials and he produced a Minnesota driver's license and 'claimed to be in possession of weapons,' according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Anderson also claimed 'that he was an FBI Agent in possession of paperwork 'signed by a judge' authorizing the release of a specific inmate,' the complaint says.

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