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An armed man caused eight UnitedHealthcare buildings in Minnetonka, Minnesota, to lock down Monday by threatening to shoot up the offices, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in a state court in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
The police have arrested Ian Stanley Wagner, a 26-year-old resident of Bloomington, Minnesota, in connection with the incident, officials said.
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Wagner is facing unrelated criminal charges in Hennepin County District Court. He called 911 Monday to say that he would fire into the UnitedHealthcare offices if the criminal charges against him were not dropped.
He "said, 'Do you want an evacuation on the news?' or words to that effect," according to the complaint.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation told Minnetonka police at 10:55 a.m. Monday that an armed man was sitting in a Volkswagen parked in a lot on the UnitedHealth corporate campus.
The police found a .38 caliber revolver and a bag of ammunition on the front passenger seat. The revolver held five rounds of live ammunition. The bag held 16 more rounds.
The police arrested Wagner and put him in the Hennepin County jail.
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Prosecutors have charged Wagner with four felonies, including two charges of threats of violence with reckless disregard for risk and two charges of possession of a firearm after being convicted of a crime of violence.
He was convicted in January of making threats of violence with reckless disregard for risk.
Police sought and received an order preventing Wagner from getting or possessing firearms. Wagner has depression, anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and Asperger's syndrome, according to the petition for the order.
UnitedHealthcare is the health insurance arm of UnitedHealth.
UnitedHealth said in a statement that the safety and security of colleagues is its top priority.
"We are grateful that law enforcement acted quickly to resolve the situation near our Minnesota offices today," the company said. "Based on what we know of the situation, the individual made no demands against UnitedHealthcare. There is no reason to believe there were specific grievances against the company."
A lawyer for Wagner was not immediately available for comment.
The incident occurred about four months after Brian Thompson, the chief executive officer of UnitedHealth's UnitedHealthcare unit, was shot to death while on a business trip in New York.
A suspect, Luigi Mangione, has been charged with first-degree murder in New York state in connection with Thompson's death. Mangione has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors have alleged that Mangione attacked Thompson after writing about his hostility toward the health insurance industry. There is no indication in the court records that the new incident has any connection with the shooting in New York.
UnitedHealth is also coping with the aftermath of a massive attack on the computer systems of a subsidiary, Change Healthcare, by the ALPHV Blackcat ransomware gang.
Threat analysts at United 221B, a cybersecurity firm, have predicted that some organizers of cyberattacks could use violence to support their attacks.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
