WASHINGTON - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, was returned to the United States Friday to face criminal charges.

Abrego Garcia is facing charges for alien smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia charged in Tennessee federal court

FOX 5 DC has obtained court documents indicting Abrego Garcia for two counts related to the "unlawful transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain."

"The grand jury found that over the past nine years Abrego Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring. They found this was his full time job, not a contractor. He was a smuggler of humans and children and women. He made over 100 trips," said Bondi.

Bondi accused o

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