Maduro and Flores’ appearance in court follows the couple’s arrival in New York on Saturday after President Donald Trump announced their capture:
The spokesperson told CBS News that Maduro and Cilia Flores are scheduled to appear in federal court at 12 p.m. on Monday. It will be their first court appearance on criminal charges since they were extracted from Venezuela during a U.S. military operation in Caracas on Saturday.
Maduro and Flores arrived in New York on Saturday afternoon, hours after they were taken from their home in Caracas and transported to the USS Iwo Jima warship before being flown to New York to face criminal charges.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Saturday that Maduro and his wife had “been indicted in the Southern District of New York.”
“Nicolas Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States,” Bondi said.
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