June 1 trial date set for Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro in his US drug trafficking case
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A June 1 trial date has been set for Nicolás Maduro to face drug trafficking charges in New York. The trial date was set on Wednesday during a brief hearing in Manhattan federal court. His lawyer says he plans to contest the charges against his client on sovereign immunity grounds, among others.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Nicolás Maduro returns to court with his lawyers Wednesday and is expected to continue objecting to the U.S. military action that snatched the Venezuelan president from power and deposited him in New York to face drug trafficking charges.
Nicolás Maduro will return to a New York courtroom as his lawyers continue their objections to the U.S. military action that snatched Venezuela’s president from power.
President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro speaks during a march as part of the “Venezuelan Student Day” at Miraflores on November 21, 2025 in Caracas, Venezuela.
NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 5: Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad, escorted by heavily armed Federal agents as they make their way into an armored car en route to a Federal courthouse in Manhattan on January 5, 2026 in New York City.
Nicolas Maduro returns to court with his lawyers Wednesday and is expected to continue objecting to the U.S. military action that snatched the Venezuelan president from power and deposited him in New York to face drug trafficking charges.
Venezuelan president and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been held at Brooklyn jail and both have pleaded not guilty Nicolás Maduro returns to court with his lawyers Wednesday and is expected to continue objecting to the US military action that snatched the Venezuelan president from power and deposited…
US Special Forces captured Maduro and his wife at their heavily guarded home in Caracas during a January 3 nighttime raid ordered by President Donald Trump.
Maduro, 63, and his wife Cilia Flores, 69, have been held at a Brooklyn jail ever since U.S. forces seized them from their Caracas home in a stunning middle-of-the-night raid and brought them to New York in early January.
NEW YORK — Nicolás Maduro was returned Wednesday to a Manhattan courthouse where lawyers plan to request a June trial date for his drug trafficking case as his attorneys object to the U.S. military action that snatched the Venezuelan president from power and deposited him in New York.
A judge on Wednesday set a June 1, 2027, trial date for ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on U.S. drug trafficking charges, while a defense lawyer vowed to seek dismissal of the case on the…
A June 1 trial date has been set for Nicolás Maduro to face drug trafficking charges in New York. The trial date was set on Wednesday during a brief hearing in Manhattan federal court. His lawyer says he plans to contest the charges against his client on sovereign immunity grounds, among others.
By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — The criminal trial of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife is scheduled to begin on June 1, 2027, a federal judge said Wednesday. Federal prosecutors and the Maduros’ defense attorneys jointly proposed a June trial date though they noted the schedule ma…
The ousted Venezuelan dictator and his wife are charged with working with drug cartels to ship thousands of tons of cocaine into the US for more than 20 years until their January capture in a stunning late-night raid.
Mr. Maduro and his wife were seized by the U.S. military in January and have been held in a Brooklyn jail since. They have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.
Former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife will go on trial on drug trafficking charges next June, a judge said Wednesday, as their lawyers continue to object to the U.S. military action that snatched them from power.
Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, face potential life prison sentences if a jury agrees that they were part of a conspiracy to send cocaine into the U.S.
Though questions of whether President Donald Trump’s January capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores were truly legal remain, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that the pair will face trial next June on the narcoterrorism and machine gun possession charges on which T…
Venezuela's ousted president Nicolas Maduro and his wife will go on trial in the United States in June 2027, a court ruled Wednesday, after the US military captured them in a stunning nighttime raid in January.
