Crazed Army veteran who set fire outside ICE HQ in NYC eyed other Big Apple sites first: feds

Source: New York Post

The crazed, homeless ex-US soldier who lit a raging blaze and fired a “BB rifle” outside ICE’s New York headquarters in Manhattan first eyed other city sites for a possible “attack,” federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Andrew Arrabaca, 43, told the feds that he visited “several other sites and locations” in the Big Apple in recent months while carrying some of the smorgasbord of weapons police recovered from Monday’s chaotic scene, prosecutor Samantha Fry said during the Army vet’s first appearance in Manhattan federal court. Arrabaca, a mentally ill Poughkeepsie native, wore a military-style helmet bearing a suicidal message during the mayhem outside 26 Federal Plaza, his public defender said.