I was watching when it happened, there was at least 2 probably 5 different clandestine agencies fighting over each other to clap onto his position since there's a non zero possibility it was a Russian sleeper kicking avalanches of inward facing violence in retaliation for Ukraine making it a direct issue of national security.

The story was given by the FBI and CIA on the case, with your Artificially generated image for who first found him, and the story was suspect as hell, so I don't think we received the accurate series of events, and that luigi was id'd long before his visit to the restaurant and they were letting him walk for a while, to see if they could find some more russians scooping him away to safety, but when that was decided as not going to happen, they grabbed him.

In any issue of national security this loud, we can be expect everythig which cannot be directly proven, to be a clandestine fabrication in order to pollute the truth out of existence.