The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) has released the traffic stop footage of Kilmer Abrego-Garcia when he was stopped for allegedly swerving and speeding while driving with a suspended license and no insurance in the company of illegal aliens and suspected MS-13 gang members.
The footage obtained by Fox News details some of the allegations made against Abrego-Garcia before he became a darling of the Democrats and his brush with authorities became a political issue.
When stopped, one of the officers noted that his vehicle, which seemed to have a modified additional seat, packed eight individuals and had potentially unusually dark windows.
“How many rows have you got in here? Four seats? Four rows of seats?” the trooper asked. “Did y’all put an extra one in?”
“I’ve never seen one with that many seats in it,” he added.
The passengers also did not have luggage and gave the same address as Abrego-Garcia, suggesting they had no known residence, which is typical of human trafficking subjects.
Abrego-Garcia’s story of where he was headed also kept changing, initially stating that he was driving from St. Louis to his Maryland residence, but later claiming he was heading somewhere else for some construction work.
A trooper also noted that Abrego-Garcia had $1,400 in cash, which was likely his payment for smuggling the suspected illegal aliens and MS-13 gang members.
“He’s hauling these people for money,” the trooper said.
Abrego-Garcia also said the car belonged to his boss. It was later determined that it belonged to a known and convicted human trafficker, Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes.
THP officers took Abrego-Garcia into custody and contacted the FBI, but were instructed to release him without any further action, even as much as investigating him.
Previously, Abrego-Garcia was arrested by Prince George’s County Police Department officers on March 28, 2019, for loitering in the company of two suspected MS-13 gang members while wearing clothes the police said were “indicative of Hispanic gang culture”. The group was also found in possession of Marijuana and discarded some undisclosed items under the vehicle.
One of the men was Christhyan Hernandez-Romero, who has a long rap sheet and is linked to the MS-13’s “Sailors Clique.” The other was Jose Guillermo Dominguez, who had tattoos indicative of a higher MS-13 rank.
Similarly, a confidential and reliable informant also identified Abrego-Garcia as an active MS-13 gang member of the rank “Chequeo” or “Chele” with the “Westerns clique.”
Abrego-Garcia’s wife’s ex-husband, Edwin Trejo Ramos, also said in a 2018 emergency custody petition filed at Prince George’s County Circuit Court in Maryland that he feared for the safety of his children since his ex-wife was dating a gang member.
“She is dating a gang member,” Ramos stated, according to the New York Post, which also reported that the petition was ultimately dropped due to jurisdiction issues.
Abrego-Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, also filed a restraining order in 2021 alleging domestic violence. The order was granted after the judge found that he had punched, scratched, grabbed, bruised, and ripped off her shirt.
Subsequently, Abrego-Garcia was prohibited from contacting or attempting to contact her mother or entering her residence. He was also banned from contacting his wife’s mother or entering her residence.
Meanwhile, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Steven Miller recently slammed Democrats for supporting “wife-beating terrorist illegal aliens.”
“We’ve reached a point in American politics where we have one party led by President Donald Trump that fights for Americans, and a second party, I guess led by AOC, that fights for illegal aliens, but not just illegal aliens. Criminal, wife-beating terrorist illegal aliens,” Miller said.
