US Attorney for NY John Sarcone claims knife-wielding illegal migrant who threatened him was going to kill somebody

US attorney for New York John Sarcone claimed Friday that a knife-wielding illegal Salvadoran migrant who was charged with threatening to slit his throat was “going to kill somebody” if he didn’t step up to help get him off the streets.Sarcone, the President Trump-appointed US attorney for the Northern District of New York, allegedly encountered a “crazy” Saul Morales-Garcia — a previously deported illegal migrant from El Salvador — outside the Hilton Hotel in Albany on Tuesday night.Detailing the encounter, Sarcone said Morales-Garcia, 40, aggressively lunged at him multiple times on the street while screaming in a “foreign language” before he gestured he would slice his throat.“I knew that if he got away, he was going to kill somebody,” Sarcone told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”“I could have easily just kept walking but I sensed that there was danger here.”Sarcone said he noticed Morales-Garcia after leaving his office in downtown Albany and decided to keep an eye on him because he “definitely appeared to be up to something crazy.”The federal prosecutor said he stopped outside the hotel to keep watch when the illegal migrant allegedly started screaming at him.

“I didn’t acknowledge him.I kept looking straight ahead.

Then out of the corner of my eye, he starts coming towards me.I turned, I look at him.

I still don’t say anything and then he pulls a knife out.He is screaming at me and then he charges at me,” Sarcone recalled.

Sarcone said he started running to the hotel lobby before the alleged perp suddenly stopped and started walking away.The prosecutor immediately called the local sheriff on his personal line to alert him.

While waiting for law enforcement to arrive, Sarcone said he went back to the street and yelled out to Garcia-Morales to get his attention and prevent him from disappearing.A screaming Morales-Garcia then allegedly charged at Sarcone yet again while making a throat-slitting gesture at Sarcone w...