Overview
- President Trump said Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores were evacuated by helicopter and are in U.S. custody on the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima en route to New York.
- Trump disclosed he spoke with Maduro about a week earlier and told him to surrender before the operation.
- Trump posted a photo showing Maduro handcuffed with his eyes and ears covered aboard the USS Iwo Jima, with a DEA agent visible behind him.
- U.S. officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, said SDNY indictments include conspiracy to commit narcoterrorism, cocaine importation, and machine-gun and destructive-device charges.
- Reporting says U.S. special operations forces entered Caracas with air strikes to execute the extraction, and authorities in New York are preparing an escorted transfer to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn before an expected arraignment in Manhattan.