"Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are spending their days for the foreseeable future at a notorious jail in Brooklyn known for housing high-profile defendants awaiting trial in New York City. The Metropolitan Detention Center, known as MDC Brooklyn, is a sprawling, industrial-style facility that has faced a series of scandals in recent years involving assaults and poor prison conditions. Maduro, the Venezuelan leader arrested in his home in Caracas by the U.S. military over the weekend, is now being held at the jail on narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation and weapons charges."
"Maduro is likely to be held in what is known as the "VIP section" of the jail, according to Renato Stabile. Stabile is a New York-based criminal defense lawyer who represented former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was also held in MDC Brooklyn before he was freed in December as a result of Trump granting him a controversial pardon. Stabile told Fox News Digital the VIP section is part of the east side of the jail, where high-profile figures like Hernández, rap artist Sean "Diddy" Combs and convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried were once held."
"Those on the east side will be "hanging out together every day and watching TV together and playing pingpong together and doing whatever they do on that side," Stabile said. He said the west side,"
Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a sprawling, industrial-style facility that has faced scandals over assaults and poor conditions. Maduro was arrested in his Caracas home by the U.S. military and faces narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation, and weapons charges. MDC Brooklyn houses more than 1,300 inmates, including both obscure and high-profile defendants charged with a range of offenses. Maduro is expected to be placed in the east-side VIP section where previous high-profile detainees have been held and inmates commonly spend time together watching TV and playing pingpong.
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