{"id":947808,"date":"2026-07-20T16:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/947808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:50:15","slug":"fbi-person-in-custody-after-eruption-by-ny-federal-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/947808\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI: Person in custody after eruption by NY federal building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A person who authorities say deployed an incendiary device outside a New York federal building Monday morning was taken into custody, the FBI said.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A person who authorities say deployed an incendiary device outside a New York federal building has been taken into custody<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The FBI says in a statement that its New York Joint Terrorism Task Force was investigating the episode Monday morning<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The New York Fire Department said they were called at about 8:30 a.m. and initial reports were for an outdoor fire<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The building at 26 Federal Plaza houses a number of government offices and an immigration court where many migrants have been arrested after leaving hearings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force was investigating the eruption of smoke and flames outside of 26 Federal Plaza, the FBI said in a statement. The New York Fire Department said they were called at about 8:30 a.m. and initial reports were for an outdoor fire.<\/p>\n<p>The individual in custody, whose name has not been released, was carrying anti-ICE material, according to preliminary information gathered by law enforcement and described by a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation by name.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Department said one person was transported to the hospital but their injuries weren&#8217;t life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What occurred outside 26 Federal Plaza this morning was deeply disturbing,&#8221; New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on social media. &#8220;I&#8217;m relieved no one was seriously injured and that a suspect is in custody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani said his team was in touch with police and will support the federal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The building at 26 Federal Plaza houses a number of government offices \u2014 including the New York office of the FBI \u2014 and an immigration court where many migrants have been arrested after leaving hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Videos and photos from the scene showed a fire with a plume of smoke on the sidewalk outside the building, as well as officers restraining a person and taking them away. ___<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press Reporters Jamie Stengle in Dallas and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 A person who authorities say deployed an incendiary device outside a New York federal building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":947809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[24166,5229,24167,12170,7448,1578,405,403,50,5226,5225,77624,5228,5227,5292,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-947808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-america","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-nnt","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116953338513685796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}