Police Suspected ‘Maryland Man’ Of ‘Getting Paid’ To Traffic Illegals, Body Cam Footage Shows

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A Tennessee Highway Patrol Officer said that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien who was deported to a Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration over his MS-13 ties, was likely engaged in human trafficking in a newly released body camera video.

The illegal alien, infamously and inaccurately referred to as a “Maryland man,” was pulled over by Tennessee Highway Patrol Officers in 2022 after the law enforcement agents suspected that he could be smuggling people.

One officer is heard in the body camera footage saying that Abrego Garcia was “hauling these people for money.” Abrego Garcia, who was driving a car with eight other people in it, had an invalid Maryland driver’s license, while none of the other men had licenses.

“He’s getting paid to haul these people, probably to Maryland, I would say,” the officer said of Abrego Garcia, who changed his story during his interaction with the law enforcement agents. “Sometimes they come in with dope,” the officer added, while a different member of the Tennessee Highway Patrol pointed out that the vehicle Abrego Garcia was driving appeared to have an extra row of seats added to it.

The illegal alien first told law enforcement that he and the other men were “going back to work” in St. Louis, Missouri, where the men worked construction. Later in the encounter, Abrego Garcia said he was going to Maryland, where he lived, but that he and the other men would then return to St. Louis, Missouri, for a construction job. Abrego Garcia also said that he was driving his boss’ car from Houston, Texas.

The law enforcement officers asked Abrego to sit in the back of their patrol car, but did not handcuff him. The officers called the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one source told Fox News, but they did not receive a response from ICE and were advised by the Biden-era FBI not to detain Abrego Garcia despite their suspicion that he was trafficking illegal aliens.

The footage emerged after Abrego Garcia was sent to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, a massive prison designed for members of criminal gangs like MS-13 and Barrio 18. His deportation became a political flashpoint, with Democrat politicians traveling to the Central American country to visit the illegal alien and call for his return to the United States.

Newly released court documents indicate that Abrego Garcia bragged that he could murder his wife and get away with it. “Me and my kids are afraid now. He kicked me, pushed me, slapped me in the face and threatened me,” the illegal alien’s wife said, according to the document. “I also have a [recording] that [he] told my ex-mother-in-law that even if he kills me no one can do anything to him.”

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration has to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States, but Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele quashed any speculation that he would send the man back to the United States in a meeting at the oval office last month. “The question is preposterous, how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”



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