Nicolás Maduro is being taken to, and is now being held at, the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York, in U.S. federal custody.

Quick Scoop

  • After a U.S. military operation in Caracas, Maduro was captured and flown out of Venezuela on a U.S. Department of Justice aircraft to New York.
  • He was first processed at a Drug Enforcement Administration facility in Manhattan and then transferred under heavy security to MDC Brooklyn, a high‑security federal detention center.
  • U.S. authorities say he is expected to remain in federal custody there while facing narcoterrorism and drug‑trafficking–related charges in the Southern District of New York.

In short, when people online ask “where is Maduro being taken,” they are referring to his transfer into U.S. federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.

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