The grand jury found that Abrego Garcia made the trips as part of a ring that trafficked guns, drugs, children and women, Bondi said. She said co-conspirators alleged that he abused women he was transporting and played a role in the killing of a rival gang member’s mother.

To hear the Trump administration tell it, Kilmar Abrego Garcia smuggled thousands of people across the country who were living in the U.S. illegally, including members of the violent MS-13 gang, long before his mistaken deportation to El Salvador.