Overview

• A Manhattan grand jury unsealed charges accusing Naasón Joaquín García of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, child-exploitation offenses, and related crimes.
• García was taken into federal custody in Chino, California, while serving a 16-year, eight-month state sentence for sexually abusing minors.
• Five alleged co-conspirators were charged, with his mother arrested in Los Angeles and a nephew near Chicago, while three others are believed to be in Mexico awaiting arrest and extradition efforts.
• The indictment alleges the enterprise used La Luz del Mundo to traffic victims, produce child sexual abuse images, employ forced labor, structure cash movements, and obstruct justice through coerced declarations and doctrinal pressure.
• Investigators say searches recovered more than $1 million in cash and sex-related items, the case follows a yearslong national probe supported by dozens of victims, and García’s attorney denies the allegations.