DOJ Investigating Human Trafficking Operation Involving Deported ‘Maryland Man’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia By Debra Heine
The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly investigating a human trafficking operation involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 gang member and wife-beater who was deported to El Salvador in March, sparking outrage among Democrats.
As American Greatness previously reported, Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) caught Abrego Garcia driving a van full of suspected illegal aliens in Tennessee on November 30, 2022. Abrego Garcia, who did not have a valid driver’s license or proof of insurance, was caught speeding midway through a trip with seven passengers from the Texas border to Maryland. Garcia reportedly told police they’d been working construction in Missouri. THP detained the crew until the FBI under then-Director Christopher Wray directed the officers to release them, law enforcement sources told the Tennessee Star, last month.
Now ABC News reports that federal investigators have recently questioned a convicted felon in at the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Alabama, about his connections to Abrego Garcia.
The inmate, Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes(38), was the registered owner of the van Abrego Garcia was driving when he was stopped by THP in late 2022. With a lawyer present and the promise of partial immunity, Hernandez-Reyes reportedly told federal investigators that he had hired Garcia on “multiple occasions” to transport illegal aliens from Texas to various locations in the United States.
Hernandez-Reyes, who allegedly met Garcia in 2015, told investigators that he had previously operated a “taxi service” based in Baltimore.
Garcia crossed the border into the United States illegally in 2011 and claimed he had to flee El Salvador to escape gang violence when he was arrested in 2019.
Body camera footage of the 2022 traffic stop shows a Tennessee trooper telling a fellow officer “he’s hauling these people for money.”
Despite their well founded suspicions, and the fact that Garcia was driving without a valid license or proof of insurance, Abrego Garcia and his passengers were allowed to drive on with just a warning.
A source told the Tennessee Star that the officers on the scene called the FBI, who instructed them “to capture photographs of all eight people in the vehicle and document its contents.”
After the photos were taken, according to the THP source, the FBI directed the officers to “release all eight individuals.” The THP officers then complied with this request despite their concern that Abrego Garcia was engaged in human trafficking.
“The Tennessee Highway Patrol can confirm a 2022 traffic stop of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was stopped for speeding on I-40,” a Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesperson said in a statement last month. “Per standard protocol, the THP contacted federal law enforcement authorities with the Biden-era FBI—the agency of jurisdiction—who made the decision not to detain him.”
Garcia’s wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura claimed last month that her husband sometimes transported groups of construction workers to job sites.
“Unfortunately, Kilmar is currently imprisoned without contact with the outside world, which means he cannot respond to the claims,” Vasquez Sura said in mid-April.
Recently released courtroom audio has provided new evidence that Abrego Garcia, who is often touted in the media as a “Maryland man” and a devoted husband and father, habitually abused Vasquez Sura.
As she pleaded for temporary protection from Garcia during a hearing in 2020, Vasquez Sura described how he repeatedly slapped her, pushed her and grabbed her by the hair.
“Before I went to my daughter’s birthday party, he slapped me three times,” she told the judge.
Vasquez Sura also said Garcia once boasted he could kill her and “no one could do anything to him” in a request for a motion for a protective order.
A GoFundMe campaign describing Garcia as “a loving father, husband, son, brother, union construction co-worker, and CASA member” has raised over $265,000 for Vasquez Sura.
An attorney for Abrego Garcia, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, complained last week that the alleged MS-13 gang member, wife abuser and human trafficker “has been denied the most basic protections of due process—no phone call to his lawyer, no call to his wife or child, and no opportunity to be heard.”
Incredibly, Sandoval-Moshenberg said he saw no evidence of a crime in the Tennessee traffic stop.
“But the point is not the traffic stop—it’s that Mr. Abrego Garcia deserves his day in court. Bring him back to the United States,” the lawyer said.
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