Overview
- Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Saturday as unverified images of his custody circulated online.
- He faces charges in the Southern District of New York that include narcoterrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine and firearms offenses stemming from a 2020 case.
- Multiple outlets report he is expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan on Monday for an initial proceeding.
- The couple arrived under tight security on a Department of Justice–linked Boeing 757 (N874TW) that flew from Guantánamo to Stewart Air National Guard Base before the transfer to MDC.
- The MDC has been criticized for overcrowding, staffing shortages and inmate violence, routinely houses high-profile defendants, and often holds them in the restrictive 9-South Special Housing Unit.