A person was apprehended Monday at UnitedHealthcare’s campus in Minnesota, police said, more than four months after the company’s CEO was gunned down in New York City.
The Minnetonka Police Department said in a pair of midday statements that there was “a large police presence at the United Healthcare campus” in the Minneapolis suburb after a suspect was “placed into custody without incident.”
“There is no threat to the public,” police added.
The arrest came nearly 19 weeks after UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson was fatally shot outside a New York City hotel.
A nationwide manhunt ended five days later when Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, police said.
Thompson’s slaying near the Hilton New York Midtown spurred a massive amount of online support for Mangione, who has been charged on state and federal counts.
U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Mangione, though defense lawyers called the directive a “political stunt.”
Hours after the fatal shooting, the CEO’s wife, Paulette Thompson, said that her husband had been receiving threats.
“There had been some threats,” she said. “Basically, I don’t know, a lack of coverage? I don’t know details. I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him.”
In an unrelated matter, U.S. Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., lashed out at UnitedHealthcare on Monday afternoon for aggressively recouping loans it gave out to healthcare providers impacted by a cyberattack last year.
The breach slowed or stopped payments to thousands of front-line medical providers.
The company had helped many of those providers with interest-free loans until the mess could be hashed out. But now UnitedHealthcare is going after borrowers, demanding they “immediately repay” their outstanding balances, according to documents viewed by CNBC.
“Imagine UnitedHealthcare going back on their word, after a payment crisis they were responsible for, with predatory practices on those who actually care for patients,” Murphy, a physician, said in statement Monday. “They continue to double down on destroying their reputation.”
Representatives of UnitedHealthcare, the nation’s largest private health insurer, could not be immediately reached for comment.
Karen Cortes, Steve Kopack, Janhvi Bhojwani and Ashley Capoot contributed.
