Overview

• A federal grand jury unsealed charges against García and five others alleging a criminal enterprise that trafficked and exploited members of La Luz del Mundo.
• García was placed into federal custody in Chino, California while serving a 16-year state sentence stemming from his 2022 guilty plea.
• Agents arrested Eva García de Joaquín in Los Angeles and Joram Núñez Joaquín near Chicago, while Rosa Sosa, Azalia Rangel García and Silem García Peña are fugitives believed to be in Mexico with extradition requests anticipated.
• Prosecutors say the enterprise used church authority to coerce victims, produce child sexual-abuse images, force travel and labor, move cash, and obstruct probes through evidence destruction and intimidation.
• HSI and IRS-CI cite a years-long, nationwide investigation involving dozens of victims, and authorities conducted raids in Los Angeles as the case moves forward in federal court.