Posted on 06/20/2025 7:26:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
An illegal immigrant has been jailed after authorities said a U.S. attorney for New York state was threatened.
Saul Morales-Garcia, 40, was arrested by the Albany County Sheriff’s Office after an incident involving John Sarcone, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, according to WNYT.
Sheriff Craig Apple said Morales-Garcia is in the U.S. illegally.
He faces charges of second-degree attempted murder, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and second-degree menacing.
Sarcone said that the suspect made gestures at him of cutting a person’s throat. At his arraignment, prosecutors said Morales-Garcia put a knife in Sarcone’s face.
Morales-Garcia is a previously deported convicted felon whose home nation is El Salvador, officials said.
The incident took place Tuesday night
“I’m a resident of the city of Albany, and … I don’t feel safe to go out for a walk and have a cigar right near the state Capitol,” Sarcone said, according to the Albany Times-Union.
According to Sarcone, the incident began when he was smoking a cigar on the street near the hotel.
“I got my eye on him, then I turn back and I’m in front of the Hilton, and I’m just standing there, and I’m looking at him … and he then starts yelling at me in his language that I don’t understand,” Sarcone said.
“I’m smoking a cigar. I don’t say anything to him … and then he pulls the knife. He’s lunging towards me, and I’m still standing there with the cigar.”
Sarcone said he entered the nearby hotel, called Sheriff Apple, then went to see if the man had lingered.
“I didn’t want him to get away, and I yelled out at him,” the attorney explained.
“He turns around, and he starts yelling again … and then he pulls the knife out, and then there’s this (gesture) across his throat thing, like he’s going to slit my throat, and then comes at me again, and I ran back towards the hotel, and then he stopped, and then turned around,” he recounted.
Sarcone indicated, deputies showed up at that moment and took the man threatening him into custody.
Morales-Garcia was charged with a retail theft offense in May 2024 in Pennsylvania, according to the Washington Times. In December 2023, he was charged in Virginia by U.S. Park Police who alleged he was drunk in public and engaged in physically threatening acts.
The suspect has an active arrest warrant in Georgia that goes back to May 2022 and a prior conviction there for drunk driving.
Morales-Garcia was deported in 2010 but later slipped back into the country.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
The new norm. Crazy resident with a boxcar load of mental issues. Cops can’t find a motive for all of the crazy crap that is going on in America. There is only one motive for all of them. MENTAL ISSUES. America has taken in most of the world’s loons.
Been released yet?
Where’s Sarcone’s thank you tweet to Hochul?
Mental issues for sure play a part. And so does pushing the envelope.
By that I mean our justice system does not really punish lesser crimes. So why shouldn’t the criminal escalate his behavior?
Rudy Giuliani understood this, and so he instituted his “broken windows” policy. Pity that more officials didn’t follow that lead.
Smoking kills.
When they release him OR, they will make sure the poor, misunderstood lad does not fall into the ICE.
BTTT
Never bring a cigar to a knife fight!
“We don’t have enough crazy, dangerous street people, murderous gangbangers and multi-generational welfare sponges. Let’s import more.”
The democrats
I wonder how long it would take the police to show up if I reported a man chasing me with a knife?
This won’t change anything. He will be a martyr for the cause.
The only thing that would change things is if “migrants” started voting Republican.
The panicked cries from the left would be glorious.
Why is he still breathing? Just ONE citizen with a firearm could have Notarized that Death Certificate that the illegal presented to the world. Self-Defense includes Defense of Others.
Why was he not in jail at that time?
I know, I know, it's New York. Ditto for California.
Has he already been released - yet again?
More DemoKKKrat on DemoKKKrat crime.
I think what the NEWS10 writer really means is an "illegal alien criminal invader from El Salvador". But the info babe for some reason is obviously avoiding a truthful description of the would-be killer.
Shameful reporting. We've come to accept this as the norm in places like New York.
I wonder if the attorney voted democrat.
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