Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife are being held at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, awaiting a court appearance, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of Maduro’s location who was not authorised to comment publicly.
The United States captured them in a surprise operation earlier in the day, The Washington Post newspaper reported
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President Donald Trump said during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago Club that the United States will control Venezuela for an unspecified period after the US operation.
A US government plane flew Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, into Stewart International Airport north of New York City.
The Justice Department unsealed a new indictment against them Saturday, alleging that they illegally enriched themselves as they conspired to flood the United States with cocaine.
