In a shocking incident that further underscores the need for mass deportations, an illegal alien armed with a knife chased down a United States attorney in the streets of Albany, New York.
Saul Morales-Garcia – a 40-year-old El Salvador national – approached US Attorney for the Northern District of New York John A. Sarcone III outside the Hilton Hotel on Tuesday night and lunged at him with the blade, making gestures that he was going to slit the federal prosecutor’s throat.
(Video Credit: CBS6 Albany)
“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 told the Albany Times Union, recounting the harrowing experience.
“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,” he continued.
“I know the streets,” the son of a Westchester County detective told the outlet, adding that he kept a safe distance from the knife-wielding foreign thug while retreating inside the Hilton’s lobby, where he called police before going back outside to keep an eye on Morales-Garcia until they arrived.
“I didn’t want him to get away, and I yelled out at him,” Sarcone said, according to the outlet. “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.”
Deputies then arrived and took the violent illegal alien into custody. Morales-Garcia, who has been previously deported and has a long history of run-ins with the law, was charged with attempted murder.
The Times-Union reported that Morales-Garcia said that he was unaware that Sarcone was a U.S. attorney, citing law enforcement sources.
Welcome to Kathy Hochul’s New York.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) slammed the Empire State’s illegal alien-loving Democrat governor after the news broke.
“This is Kathy Hochul’s dangerous sanctuary state New York that puts illegals first, New Yorkers last,” she wrote in a post to X. “He must be deported. And Kathy Hochul must be FIRED!”
BREAKING NEWS:
This is not an “ALBANY man.”
Saul Morales-Garcia is an ILLEGAL who, according to Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple, tried to kill President @realDonaldTrump‘s U.S. Attorney from the Northern District with a knife last night.
This is Kathy Hochul’s dangerous… pic.twitter.com/N9drFPSNmf
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) June 18, 2025
“Three separate times, Hochul signed executive orders to protect violent illegal aliens from deportation. Kathy Hochul puts illegals first and New Yorkers last. We desperately need a governor who puts New Yorkers first and restores law and order to our streets,” Stefanik said in another X post.
“Morales-Garcia pleaded not guilty on Wednesday and was sent to Albany County jail without bail. A grand jury is scheduled to review the evidence in the case on Friday,” the Times-Union reported.
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