Lunatic Luigi Mangione fan posed as FBI agent in botched bid to break accused CEO killer out of NYC jail: feds

A pizza cutter-toting lunatic posed as an FBI agent in a botched bid to spring Luigi Mangione out of his notorious Brooklyn jail, federal prosecutors said Thursday.Minnesota native Mark Anderson approached the intake area at the Metropolitan Detention Center and made the head-scratching claim that he had an order “signed by a judge” to free the accused cold-blooded killer, who is being held without bail, according to court records and law enforcement sources.When asked to show his credentials, Anderson allegedly took out a Minnesota driver’s license, and said that he had weapons in his bag.Staff guarding the door then searched the bag and found a BBQ fork and a “circular steel blade resembling a pizza cutter” inside, court papers said.After throwing a stack of papers at Bureau of Prisons staffers, Anderson was promptly arrested and charged with impersonating an FBI agent.Anderson had moved to New York City for a job opportunity that fell through, and had been working at a pizza parlor, according to a law enforcement source.What pizza eatery he worked out was not immediately clear.He was set to make his first appearance in court Thursday afternoon.The bizarre alleged episode unfolded days before Mangione, 27, was set to appear on Friday in Manhattan federal court for a pre-trial conference in his headline-grabbing case.The University of Pennsylvania graduate is charged with executing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Midtown sidewalk on Dec.

4, 2024, outside the healthcare giant’s annual investor conference.Mangione had written in his notebook about his desire to “wack” Thompson in a targeted hit inspired by what he called UnitedHealthCare’s “parasitic” practice of denying claims, according to prosecutors....