Don Lemon Arturo Holmes/Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: Don Lemon will appear before a federal judge this afternoon in downtown LA after being arrested by federal agents late Thursday night. While the charges against the former CNN anchor remain sealed by the Department of Justice and have yet to appear in a court docket, Lemon is being held in federal custody. Earlier Friday, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said that Lemon was facing "conspiracy to Deprive Rights, and ...interfering by force of someone's First Amendment rights.