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Salvadoran to fight immigration charges

Ex-military chief won’t plead guilty

By Milton Valencia

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 12, 2012

The former Salvadoran military commander accused of plotting the assassination of six Jesuit priests in 1989 has decided to challenge immigration charges in federal court, reversing an earlier decision to plead guilty to the accusations. Oscar Cruz, an attorney for Inocente Orlando Montano, told the court yesterday that Montano will not plead guilty as planned, and that he expects prosecutors to move forward with the official process of seeking a grand jury indictment. Montano, 69, is accused of lying about his military background on immigration forms.

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