Anyway you slice it, he’s a lunatic.
The unhinged nutjob who allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail as soon as pointed a BB gun on the Bronx pizzeria the place he labored — earlier than suing his boss for tens of millions together with the Pentagon, based on the previous employer and courtroom papers.
Mark Anderson, 36 — who was tossed in the identical jail as his accused murderer idol after allegedly making an attempt to bust him out with a pizza cutter Wednesday — went berserk when he received canned from Louie and Ernie’s Pizza in Throgs Neck final spring, mentioned proprietor Cosimo Tiso.
“He was relieved of obligation final yr proper round April, and he’s been a bit chaotic in my life since then,” mentioned Tiso, 55, including that he’s been repeatedly sued by the previous employee.
“He’s a serial litigant… This was a giant shock,” he advised The Submit on Friday.
Anderson allegedly confirmed up at the old-fashioned pizza store on Crosby Ave wielding a BB gun — and was caught on digital camera pointing at a safety digital camera and pretending to tug the set off, based on footage supplied by Tiso.
Within the video, he wears a face masks as he allegedly bangs on the window of the pizzeria with the weapon.
“He was arrested on Christmas,” Tiso mentioned. “Seems it wasn’t [a real gun.]”
The day after the weird incident, Anderson sued Tiso, alleging that the pizza boss made him work 70 hour weeks for 2 years with out receiving additional time — and demanding $12.5 million, courtroom data present. The case continues to be pending.
Performing as his personal lawyer, Anderson has additionally filed handwritten complaints in Manhattan inexplicably suing the Pentagon, and the ambassadors to China and Russia, courtroom data present. All of these lawsuits have been thrown out.
Tiso, additionally Anderson’s landlord, mentioned he labored on the restaurant for a yr earlier than he “modified.”
“He labored right here and paid his lease, and we had a superb relationship. That is very, very odd that it happened this fashion,” Tiso mentioned.
“He was a tenant of mine at some extent, he nonetheless is getting evicted, and at the moment can be his first courtroom appointed eviction date, and he’s not going to indicate up,” he mentioned.
On Wednesday night time, Anderson allegedly posed as an FBI agent and made the bonkers declare that he had an order “signed by a choose” to free the accused cold-blooded killer from a Brooklyn federal lockup, the place he was being held with out bail.
When requested to indicate his credentials, Anderson allegedly took out a Mankato, Minn. driver’s license on the Metropolitan Detention Middle and mentioned that he had weapons in his bag.
Workers guarding the consumption space searched the bag and located a BBQ fork and a “spherical metal blade” that resembled a pizza cutter, courtroom papers mentioned.
Anderson was ordered held with out bail at his first courtroom look within the case Thursday afternoon, as his lawyer, Michael Weil, mentioned he was mentally ailing and argued in useless for him to be launched to a hospital for remedy.
“I’m shocked that he would even go to this stage,” Tiso mentioned of the incident. “I don’t understand how he received this in his head.”
