Justice Justice Department investigating 2022 Abrego Garcia traffic stop: Sources investigating 2022 Abrego Garcia traffic stop: Sources
Justice Department investigating 2022 Abrego Garcia traffic stop: Sources
A federal inmate was questioned about possible connections, sources saidNewly released video shows Abrego Garcia's 2022 Tennessee traffic stopNewly released video shows the moments when Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongfully deported to a prison in El Salvador, was pulled over by state troopers in Tennessee in 2022.
The U.S. Department of Justice has been quietly investigating a Tennessee traffic stop in 2022 involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man at the center of a high-profile court battle over his mistaken deportation from Maryland to El Salvador by the Trump administration, ABC News has learned.
Federal investigators involved in the inquiry recently spoke with a convicted felon in an Alabama prison and questioned him about potential connections to Abrego Garcia, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
The inmate, Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, 38, was the registered owner of a vehicle driven by Abrego Garcia when he was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in late 2022, according to the sources. Abrego Garcia was pulled over for speeding in a vehicle with eight passengers and told police they'd been working construction in Missouri.
Federal agents investigating the Tennessee incident appeared late last month at the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Alabama, to question Hernandez-Reyes, who had an attorney present and was granted limited immunity, sources familiar with the interview said.
Hernandez-Reyes told investigators that he previously operated a "taxi service" based in Baltimore. He claimed to have met Abrego Garcia around 2015 and claimed to have hired him on multiple occasions to transport undocumented migrants from Texas to various locations in the United States, the sources told ABC News. The frequency and time frame of the alleged trips was not immediately clear.....
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So now Garcia is just a misunderstood taxi cab driver.