U.S. Arrests Two Relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Drug-Trafficking Charges
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Nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife have been arrested on charges of drug smuggling, Fox News Latino has confirmed. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York presented the charges against Efraín Antonio Campos Flores and Francisco Flores de Freites
Campos claimed to be the son of Flores and stepson of President Nicolas Maduro, said former DEA official Michael Vigil to the Associated Press. Vigil says he was briefed by U.S. authorities about the undercover operation that resulted in the arrests.
The men allegedly were in the process of smuggling cocaine – just under a ton, roughly about 1,700 lbs. – into the United States when they were arrested in Port-au-Prince, where their plane arrived, and brought by authorities to New York.
this dictatorship is a mess.
