NYPD Ramps Up Security Around Courthouse as Trump Indictment Looms

New York Court officers watch as NYPD drop off metal barricades in front of the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, on March 20, 2023. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

The New York Police Department (NYPD) on Monday began setting up barricaded press pens around the Manhattan Criminal Court where former President Donald Trump is expected to be indicted on Tuesday.

For days, Trump has suggested that he expects to be arrested by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, which is investigating the former president for his company’s classification of a $130,000 reimbursement to his former personal attorney Michael Cohen over a payment allegedly made to adult actress Stormy Daniels.