Due to security issues, authorities flew the pair in via helicopter before getting into an armored truck and driving to the courthouse. Several reporters and pundits on the scene said they've never seen security like this during any other legal case they've covered.

According to the New York Post, "Maduro and Flores are in separate, solitary cells inside Brooklyn's notorious Metropolitan Detention Center—where heavily armed law enforcement members are on patrol outside." 

In 2020, the United States Department of Justice unsealed indictments in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) charging Venezuelan Maduro and several other current and former Venezuelan officials with narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and other destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and other destructive devices—four counts total.

According to the charges, Maduro and his associates led Cartel de los Soles, a drug trafficking network that involved the Venezuelan military and other figures within the regime and partnered with FARC, a Colombian guerrilla group and designated terrorist organization, to flood the United States with massive quantities of cocaine while using the proceeds to maintain power and enrich their own lives.

Up until Saturday, when Maduro was captured and arrested by the US military, the United States had a $50 million reward for information leading to his arrest.

On Monday, federal prosecutors unveiled a superseding indictment that expands those original charges, adding new defendants and details about Maduro's alleged role in the conspiracy... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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