A pizzeria worker posing as an FBI agent and armed with a pie cutter is facing federal charges after he tried to bust Luigi Mangione out of jail, according to a criminal complaint obtained by USA TODAY.
Mark Anderson of Mankato, Minnesota, was charged on Thursday, Jan. 29, with impersonating an FBI agent after he showed up to a federal jail in New York City the night before and said he had a court order to release Mangione, according to the complaint.
When Bureau of Prisons officers at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn asked to see Anderson’s FBI credentials, the complaint says the 36-year-old produced a Minnesota driver’s license, said he was armed and "displayed and threw" numerous documents at the officers.
Officers then searched Anderson’s bag and found a circular steel blade that looked like a small pizza cutter wheel, in addition to a barbecue fork, the complaint said.
Federal officials say that Mark Anderson was carrying a barbecue fork, what appears to be a pizza cutter and a Minnesota driver's license when he tried to free Luigi Mangione from custody.