First Midway Blitz guilty plea scaled back as defendant contests account of crash with feds
<p>The first guilty plea tied to Operation Midway Blitz was scaled back Thursday as a Chicago man pushed back against prosecutors' claims that he’d intentionally crashed into a vehicle carrying federal officers.</p><p>In October, at the height of the Trump administration’s pummeling deportation campaign in the Chicago area, Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez joined a caravan of cars tailing a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle through the South Side.</p><p>Prosecutors alleged that Alvarez purposefully hit the vehicle with his truck, and he<b> </b>was charged in October with<b> </b>assaulting officers.</p><p>Alvarez then <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/04/15/crime-chicago-midway-blitz-immigration-ice-border-patrol" target="_blank" >pleaded guilty<b> </b>in April</a> to concealing information about a crime, a felony, admitting<b> </b>he<b> </b>falsely<b> </b>told<b> </b>the Chicago Police Department his<b> </b>Ford F-250<b> </b>had been stolen<b> </b>after<b> </b>his<b> </b>collision<b> </b>with officers.
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<p>The first guilty plea tied to Operation Midway Blitz was scaled back Thursday as a Chicago man pushed back against prosecutors' claims that he’d intentionally crashed into a vehicle carrying federal officers.</p><p>In October, at the height of the Trump administration’s pummeling deportation campaign in the Chicago area, Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez joined a caravan of cars tailing a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle through the South Side.</p><p>Prosecutors alleged that Alvarez purposefully hit the vehicle with his truck, and he<b> </b>was charged in October with<b> </b>assaulting officers.</p><p>Alvarez then <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/04/15/crime-chicago-midway-blitz-immigration-ice-border-patrol" target="_blank" >pleaded guilty<b> </b>in April</a> to concealing information about a crime, a felony, admitting<b> </b>he<b> </b>falsely<b> </b>told<b> </b>the Chicago Police Department his<b> </b>Ford F-250<b> </b>had been stolen<b> </b>after<b> </b>his<b> </b>collision<b> </b>with officers. That gave the feds<b> </b>their first guilty plea<b> </b>tied to Midway Blitz.</p><p>But in June, prosecutors<b> </b>told<b> </b>U.S. District Judge<b> </b>LaShonda<b> </b>Hunt<b> </b>a<b> </b>“potential legal issue”<b> </b>had come up, and they said they’d offered<b> </b>Alvarez<b> </b>a chance<b> </b>to plead guilty<b> </b>to a misdemeanor instead.</p><p>The news came three weeks after<b> </b>U.S.
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- <p>The first guilty plea tied to Operation Midway Blitz was scaled back Thursday as a Chicago man pushed back against prosecutors' claims that he’d intentionally crashed into a vehicle carrying federal officers.</p><p>In October, at the height of the Trump administration’s pummeling deportation campaign in the Chicago area, Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez joined a caravan of cars tailing a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle through the South Side.</p><p>Prosecutors alleged that Alvarez purposefully hit the vehicle with his truck, and he<b> </b>was charged in October with<b> </b>assaulting officers.</p><p>Alvarez then <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/04/15/crime-chicago-midway-blitz-immigration-ice-border-patrol" target="_blank" >pleaded guilty<b> </b>in April</a> to concealing information about a crime, a felony, admitting<b> </b>he<b> </b>falsely<b> </b>told<b> </b>the Chicago Police Department his<b> </b>Ford F-250<b> </b>had been stolen<b> </b>after<b> </b>his<b> </b>collision<b> </b>with officers.
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