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First Midway Blitz guilty plea scaled back as defendant contests account of crash with feds

Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez withdrew an earlier felony plea and admitted to a misdemeanor after prosecutors raised a potential legal issue in the case.

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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. 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. Prose…

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Man pleads guilty to misdemeanor in Midway Blitz case originally brought by ‘Broadview Six’ grand jury

A felony conviction secured by federal prosecutors stemming from a traffic altercation during Operation Midway Blitz has now been reduced to a misdemeanor.

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First Midway Blitz guilty plea scaled back as defendant contests account of crash with feds

The downgraded charge against Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez is another setback for prosecutors in the dozens of federal cases that were brought in relation to the deportation campaign. Just one other defendant has pleaded guilty.

·Chicago, United States
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Chicagoans Alleging Crimes by ICE Agents Seek Police Help After Feds ‘Fail To Act’

Colin Boyle/Block Club ChicagoA coalition of alleged victims and immigration advocates filed nine police reports Monday against federal agents linked to last fall’s Operation Midway Blitz.

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Chicago Sun Times broke the news in Chicago, United States on Thursday, August 13, 2026.
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