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

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. Prosecutors alleged that Alvarez purposefully hit the…