Posted on 01/03/26
| News Source: Arutz-7
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday evening deboarded a plane at Stewart Air National Guard Base in New York after arriving in the United States, according to a federal official and footage aired by CNN affiliate WCBS.
The captured Venezuelan leader was seen in grey clothing and handcuffs, escorted by more than a dozen federal agents dressed in black, WCBS reported.
Maduro is expected to be transported by helicopter to Manhattan before being taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center, a facility that has housed several high‑profile defendants in major federal cases, including Sean “Diddy" Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried.
He is scheduled to face drugs and weapons charges in Manhattan federal court next week.
Maduro and his wife were captured by US troops early Saturday morning in a complex, well-coordinated, multi-stage operation carried out deep in the Venezuelan capital.
US President Donald Trump gave a press conference on Saturday to discuss the capture of Maduro.