From the U.S. Attorney:
MAN ADMITS TO FELONIOUSLY USING HIS VEHICLE TO IMPEDE, INTIMIDATE, AND INTERFERE WITH THE WORK OF FEDERAL IMMIGRATION AGENTS DURING OPERATION MIDWAY BLITZ
CHICAGO – A man has admitted in federal court that he used his vehicle to impede, intimidate, and interfere with the work of federal immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, and then filed a false police report after the collision.
The statutory maximum sentence for this conviction, which is a felony, is three years in federal prison.
On Oct. 3, 2025, ANTHONY GONZALEZ ALVAREZ joined a caravan of vehicles that was following a vehicle driven by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers on the Southwest Side of Chicago.
Gonzalez Alvarez admitted in a plea agreement that he drove his Ford pickup truck into the rear passenger-side of the CBP vehicle in order to impede, intimidate, and interfere with the CBP officers’ immigration operation.
To conceal his involvement in the collision, Gonzalez Alvarez filed a false report with the Chicago Police Department, claiming that his truck had been stolen on the morning of the collision, the plea agreement states.
Gonzalez Alvarez, 27, of Lyons, Ill., pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of misprision of felony. U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt set sentencing for July 22, 2026.
The guilty plea was announced by Andrew S. Boutros, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Douglas S. DePodesta, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Office of the FBI.
