Overview
- Kash Patel said the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group assisted the mission that seized Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores in Caracas and moved them toward U.S. prosecution.
- The Justice Department released a new indictment on Saturday naming Maduro and Flores in a narco-terrorism conspiracy, updating earlier 2020 charges.
- U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Maduro faces counts including narcoterrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and possession of machine guns and destructive devices.
- New photos showed Maduro in a beige prison jumpsuit, shackled and limping, as agents escorted him toward a helicopter expected to take him to the Manhattan federal courthouse for arraignment.
- Mediaite reported Patel’s Fox & Friends appearance briefly carried outside audio—capturing a staffer shouting about lighting—after a studio van phone fed onto the live broadcast.