Venezuela President Maduro To Be Indicted In The U.S. For Drug Charges
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro landed in the United States on Saturday, multiple news outlets reported, arriving in upstate New York following his capture in an overnight U.S. operation.
Video showed a plane arriving at Stewart International Airport about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of New York City, with several U.S. personnel in FBI and other gear boarding the aircraft after it landed. TV news networks, including CNN, Fox News and MS Now, identified a person who disembarked from the plane as Maduro.
A team of FBI agents were with the US special operation forces who carried out the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, according to people briefed on the matter, and plans are now in the works to take Maduro to New York where he will face charges in Manhattan federal court.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration has worked for years on an indictment of Maduro and some top military leaders in Venezuela, according to US law enforcement officials.
That work is expected to form the basis of charges set to be made public.
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US Attorney General Pam Bondi said earlier that Maduro will “soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts” after he was captured in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were dragged from their bedroom by US forces during the raid that led to their capture, two sources familiar with the matter said.
The couple was captured in the middle of the night as they were sleeping, the sources said.
The raid, carried out by the US Army’s elite Delta Force, did not lead to any US casualties, a US official said.
