A federal judge has dismissed human-trafficking charges against “Maryland Man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia, citing vindictive prosecution by the Department of Justice.
Garcia became a liberal cause célèbre after he was deported to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador during the early days of President Trump’s latest term. After a legal ruling by the Supreme Court and visits by US lawmakers, he was returned to the US, where he has faced charges relating to human trafficking and also filed lawsuits of his own challenging those charges.
In May 2025, an indictment was brought against him that alleged he ““conspired to bring undocumented aliens to the United States from countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, and elsewhere, ultimately passing through Mexico before crossing into Texas.”
The indictment alleges he helped transport thousands of illegal aliens.
Garcia is also alleged to be a member of the Salvadorean transnational gang MS-13, a “criminal enterprise engaged in … acts and threats involving murder, extortion, narcotics trafficking, firearms trafficking, alien smuggling, and money laundering.”
US District Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. granted Abrego Garcia’s motion to dismiss, saying “the objective evidence here shows that, absent Abrego’s successful lawsuit challenging his removal to El Salvador, the Government would not have brought this prosecution.”
The judge said the DoJ’s decision to charge Garcia was “the source of the vindictiveness” that led him to dismiss the charges.
He called the charges “an abuse of prosecuting power.”
In response to the dismissal, Garcia told The Epoch Times, “justice is a big word and an even bigger promise to fulfill; and I am grateful that today, justice has taken a step forward.”
So far the Department of Justice has not commented on the decision.
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Activist jugde is the worst to find, it suppose to be blind. I hope someone give them treatment like they deserve, like the Dem did to ICE, Be outside they home, honk and protest 247/ they have to feel the anger from the people to. The POS Maryland man, is what the Dem care about. Smugler, wife beater and MS13 was not enough for the activist jugde.
The immigration court gave a damn order for his deportation. Trump, get a pair and deport him and tell these judges to F off
Impeach Crenshaw after you see who paid him off
On November 30, 2022, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol for speeding, with nine passengers inside. The officers CLEARLY SAW he was an illegal and was smuggling other illegals, but let him continue driving with an expired-license warning.
The DOJ ought to prosecute those POS Tennessee cops for failure to turn Garcia and the nine others over to ICE!
Just follow the money and see who owns that judge, pretty sure there will be no shocker.
Work can follow that judge home.