ABC News reported that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 member and wife beater, is on his way back to America to face charges for allegedly trafficking humans.
I wonder if Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) will greet him with roses and chocolates.
A federal grand jury in Tennessee indicted Garcia on human trafficking charges under 8 U.S. Code § 1324.
The charges were filed on May 21 and unsealed today.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, as detailed further below, used his status in MS-13 to further his criminal activity. Over the course of the conspiracy, the co-conspirators knowingly and unlawfully transported thousands of undocumented aliens who had no authorization to be present in the United States, and many of whom were MS-13 members and associates. The co-conspirators also worked with transnational criminal organizations in Mexico to transport undocumented aliens through Mexico and into the United States.
The filing says these people came from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Mexico, and other places. The conspirators allegedly smuggled the people into America through Texas.
Yes, the indictment states the people included MS-13 gang members and associates of the gang.
In April, The Tennessee Star discovered the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) detained Abrego Garcia on suspicion of human trafficking in December 2022.
THP contacted the FBI.
The FBI told the THP to release Abrego Garcia and the passengers, which it did.
Then last month, the DOJ spoke to a prisoner in Alabama about possible connections to Garcia regarding the allegations.
ABC News reported at the time:
The inmate, Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, 38, was the registered owner of a vehicle driven by Abrego Garcia when he was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in late 2022, according to the sources. Abrego Garcia was pulled over for speeding in a vehicle with eight passengers and told police they’d been working construction in Missouri.Federal agents investigating the Tennessee incident appeared late last month at the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Alabama, to question Hernandez-Reyes, who had an attorney present and was granted limited immunity, sources familiar with the interview said.Hernandez-Reyes told investigators that he previously operated a “taxi service” based in Baltimore. He claimed to have met Abrego Garcia around 2015 and claimed to have hired him on multiple occasions to transport undocumented migrants from Texas to various locations in the United States, the sources told ABC News. The frequency and time frame of the alleged trips was not immediately clear.
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