JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Pleads Not Guilty on Federal Human Trafficking Charges, Fights For Release Pending Trial

MS-13 gang member and wife beater Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty to human trafficking charges on Friday as he fights for release pending trial.

Abrego Garcia appeared in a Nashville court clad in a red jumpsuit.

Last week a federal grand jury in Tennessee indicted Kilmar Abrego Garcia for “transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.”

He was charged with one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and one count of unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens.

According to the indictment, Kilmar Abrego Garcia and co-conspirators from El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and the US were trafficking illegal aliens from 2016 through 2025.

Read the indictment here.

“If convicted at trial, the defendant faces a maximum punishment of 10 years’ imprisonment for ‘each alien’ he transported,” the government said.

ABC News reported that according to the government’s motion for detention, an Abrego Garcia co-conspirator told the feds that Abrego Garcia was involved in the murder of a rival gang member’s mother.

Last month Fox News obtained 2022 bodycam footage that shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia being caught human trafficking in Tennessee.

Last week US Attorney General Pam Bondi said Abrego Garcia will eventually be sent back to El Salvador.