Overview

• A federal grand jury in New York unsealed charges on Sept. 10 alleging a decades-long scheme that abused children and women, including the production of sadistic child sexual abuse material.
• García was placed in federal custody at California’s Chino facility, where he is serving a 16-year state sentence stemming from his 2022 plea.
• Authorities arrested his mother, Eva García de Joaquín, in Los Angeles and his nephew, Joram Núñez Joaquín, near Chicago, while three co-defendants — Rosa Sosa, Azalia Rangel García and Silem García Peña — remain fugitives believed to be in Mexico, with extradition to be sought.
• The indictment details forced labor, illicit cash structuring and smuggling, and obstruction through witness coercion, evidence destruction and sermons discrediting victims after García’s 2019 arrest.
• SDNY, HSI and IRS‑CI say the case caps a years-long, nationwide investigation supported by dozens of victim accounts.