*UPDATE*: Charles Barnacle Jr., Assistant Director in Charge for the FBI’s NY Field Office, named the suspect in the attack on 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan:
“Today, just before 9 A.M., a man by the name of Andrew Arrabaca — A-r-r-a-b-a-c-a — arrived at 26 Federal Plaza, just behind us on Worth Street, at the employee entrance to the building where he ignited gasoline. He poured gasoline onto the ground and ignited it with a lighter and an incendiary device. That device was a firework — a large firework in a canister that proceeded to catch on fire. Pretty big flame, as you’ve seen on the internet. He then pulled out an airsoft rifle and fired five to seven, pellets, if you will, in the direction of 26 Federal Plaza. At that time, Federal Protective Services, two officers a — a gray suit, a contractor with Allied that is employed to guard this building — those three people and the two officers standing behind me in the blue shirts are the officers that intervened and took Mr. Arrabaca into custody. While we had him on the ground. An FBI agent jumped in and they — they put handcuffs on him and took him into the building. He is currently in custody and he has been interviewed. Arrabaca is a former United States Army soldier. He was enlisted for approximately four years, serving from 2001 to 2005. He was a repairman or mechanic on Patriot missile systems. He is 43 years old.”“There were injuries in this. Three people were injured. Minor injuries, one civilian and two government employees. Right now, our evidence response team is out working with NYPD and our New York Joint Terrorism Task Force to collect evidence to conduct interviews. We have located a vehicle of Mr. Arrabaca’s. We have seized that vehicle. We are procuring or obtaining a search warrant.”“Mr. Arrabaca came armed with bad intentions. I will say that 26 Federal Plaza has long been a target of extremists, of terrorists. And today the extremism was brought here. The building was attacked. Mr. Arrabaca was looking to injure people and harm people. He had two axes, a hammer, a machete and three knives, fixed blade knives. He had, as I said earlier, six incendiary devices or fireworks, and he had some other destructive items. Going forward today, like I said, we’ll do more interviews, we’ll collect more evidence and we will — and I’ll leave to Mr. McDonald to talk about charges. We take this very seriously.”“On his cart — he had a car — he had anti-ICE literature on it. When he was being arrested, he yelled derogatory terms to ICE, used bad words, obviously. He is an anti-American, anti-government extremist. We know that from what he said. We know that from what he has said, post arrest. And we know that from what — his actions that he tried to take today.”
https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/2079288494426349824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
***Morning report….
The FBI arrested a suspect for allegedly setting off an incendiary device in front of a federal building that has an immigration court in New York City.
“Officials said the fire appeared to be started by fireworks, which were loaded into a wagon bearing a sign that read “ICE out of our streets,” reported PIX 11.
New reports indicate that the explosion injured three people, including two firefighters. All of them went to an area hospital.
Bill Melugin from Fox News posted on X:
FBI statement to @FoxNews:”This morning an individual deployed an incendiary device outside of 26 Federal Plaza. The individual has been taken into custody and the FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating the incident.”NYPD tells FOX there was a “found firearm” in relation to this event, but couldn’t confirm if it was found on the suspect.
https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/2079210121121480746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The incident took place at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. As you can see, the building is close to City Hall and one mile from One World Trade Center.
The building houses an immigration court on the 12th floor: “The New York – Federal Plaza Immigration Court falls under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, which is a component of the Executive Office for Immigration Review under the Department of Justice.”
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