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Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Nov 4, 2025

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been transferred to Tennessee for a hearing this week on criminal charges stemming from a 2022 traffic stop. A Pennsylvania judge authorized the transfer on Friday. Abrego Garcia is charged with smuggling migrants across the country, to which he has pleaded not guilty. The Tennessee Lookout reports that the multi-day hearing comes after U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw found in October there was a “likelihood” that the Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment against Abrego Garcia was vindictive. Crenshaw also recently warned Trump administration officials of possible sanctions if they continued making inflammatory statements about Abrego Garcia.