Us Attorney Narrowly Escapes Knife Attack By Illegal Immigrant, Blames New York's Sanctuary Policies

A apical national lawyer successful New York is speaking retired against nan state’s sanctuary metropolis policies aft allegedly being attacked by a knife-wielding undocumented migrant. 

John Sarcone III, nan U.S. lawyer for nan Northern District of New York, said nan incident happened while he was stepping to nan State Capitol building successful Albany. Sarcone says he noticed a man behaving erratically adjacent and had a emotion thing was wrong.

"I could person easy conscionable kept walking," Sarcone told "Fox & Friends" Friday. "But I sensed that location was threat here." 

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ALBANY, NY - APRIL 28: U.S. Attorney for nan Northern District of New York John A. Sarcone III holds a criminal title that was brought against an accused online intersexual predator connected Monday, April 28, 2025.. (Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images) (Getty Images/Will Waldron)

According to Sarcone, nan man began shouting successful a connection he didn’t understand. "I didn't admit him. I kept looking consecutive ahead. Then retired of nan area of my eye, he starts coming towards me," he describes. 

The man allegedly pulled retired a weapon and began "charging" astatine nan attorney, who ran into nan lobby of a adjacent edifice and called nan sheriff of Albany County. 

"I knew that if he sewage away, he was going to termination somebody," Sarcone said. He went backmost extracurricular to effort and support nan fishy nearby. 

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(U.S. Attorney John Sarcone described nan shocking infinitesimal fishy Saul Morales-Garcia allegedly lunged astatine him pinch a weapon connected nan streets of Albany, N.Y.)

"I went to nan sidewalk to effort to support him successful nan area and I yelled out. And he turned around. He yelled back. And past he came backmost astatine me," Sarcone said. 

The man reportedly past made a threatening motion by drafting a weapon crossed his ain neck. Sarcone said he took that arsenic a motion nan fishy meant to termination him, "He’s [going to] slit my throat."

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The fishy has been identified arsenic 40-year-old Saul Morales-Garcia, a migrant from El Salvador who entered nan United States unlawfully successful 2021. He was arrested astatine nan segment and charged pinch attempted murder, felony weapons possession and menacing.

Sarcone claims nan onslaught was nan nonstop origin of sanctuary metropolis policies and an influx of undocumented migrants. He said he shared that position straight pinch Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul erstwhile she contacted him aft nan attack. 

"She was very sympathetic and concerned. And I said to her, I said, 'Look, nan sanctuary cities aren't working.'"

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Earlier this month, nan Department of Justice launched a lawsuit against New York complete akin issues, claiming an enactment by nan authorities shields criminal aliens from being lawfully detained. The Protect Our Courts Act, passed by New York’s legislature successful 2020, prohibits national migration agents from making civilian arrests successful aliases astir authorities courthouses.