Ithaca Police arrested Guzman-Lopez hours after the altercation and accused him of stabbing the unnamed victim, but prosecutors never indicted him because of a lack of evidence. When they found the fake green card, Guzman-Lopez admitted it was a fake document, his lawyers said. “Jose has called the United States home for over a decade,” Wolfson and Peebles, his federal public defenders, told the court. “All of his friends are in the United States. His estranged wife is in the United States.

Source: Daily Sun October 23, 2017 02:26 UTC