EXCLUSIVE Kilmar Abrego Garcia's 'brazen threat' to wife uncovered as the 'Maryland migrant' faces smuggling trial that could land him behind bars for life
Kilmar Abrego Garcia – who on Friday pled not guilty to two human smuggling charges in Tennessee that could land him in prison for life – made the threat during one of many alleged domestic violence incidents, the papers claim.
His wife Jennifer Vasquez laid out the allegations in a 2020 handwritten statement to police.
'He kicked me… slapped me in the face. Threaten me. I also have a recorded (sic) that he told my ex-mother-in-law that even he kills me no one can do anything to him,' she claimed.
Abrego Garcia, 29, is now back in the United States after being deported back to his native land, where he was held for a while in a notorious ultra hell-hole prison.
Vasquez, also 29, led demands for him to be brought back. She has been his most vocal champion, defending his character at press conferences and sharing carefully curated videos on social media showing him as a doting husband and devoted father.
But DailyMail.com can reveal that court documents we have exclusively reviewed reveal a far darker story.
Vasquez shockingly filed for protective orders against the so-called ' Maryland Migrant' not once, but twice, detailing his alleged violent behavior.
The Maryland father-of-three – who was whisked up in the first mass deportations by ICE on March 12 and extradited to the CECOT mega prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, despite a court order protecting him from removal – has never been arrested or convicted of a crime, despite several brushes with the law.
But two court documents reveal a history of shocking domestic violence allegations against Abrego Garcia made by his wife.
Her formal application for a protection order in 2020, just a year after they were married, claimed her husband kept her captive, hit her and bragged about being able to act with impunity.
Vasquez, who has two children with former partner Edwin Ramos Trejo and one with Abrego Garcia, said in her 2020 protection order application that she dialed 911 following an argument over her car and cooking.
She claimed her new husband then locked her two eldest children in a room and she could hear their sobbing but was powerless. Vasquez managed to call 911, but that apparently escalated the situation.
In an often-disjoined narrative, she wrote: 'I told him to let me go downstairs, but he blocked the door.' Desperate, she looked out of a window and 'saw someone walking and called for help… when my husband heard he grabbed me back inside and slapped me.
'Police came. He acted violent with him and broke my phone in front of officer. This is not the first time. It been a couple of occasion he takes my phone, and I'm left without be able to call anyone. I have photos of all the bruises his left on my body.
Jennifer, who advocated for her husband's 'upstanding' character on TikTok, filed two orders of protection against him where she went as far as accusing him of saying to her ex-mother-in-law that he would kill her with no consequences
'In my house is broken TVs, my son's tablet, my car windshield, phones… me and my kids are afraid now.'
In her 2021 complaint, also to the District Court of Maryland for Prince George's County, Vasquez alleged in her one-page missive a violent situation when the couple were with their young baby, possibly in bed in the early hours.
'I told him I wasn't sleepy, he got angry, reached over, shut and threw my laptop on the floor and the baby started to cry because he was putting pressure on him. My reaction was to push him off us, and then he punched, scratched me on my left eye, leaving me bleeding.
'That same day at 2pm he came home… he got angry again started yelling to the point that he rip my shorts and shirt off and I ran to the bathroom. He ran behind me, grabbed me by my arm.'
Later that day, according to the complaint: 'I order Uber to leave with my kids b/c scared of him... at this point I am afraid to be close to him.'
In an apparent reference to other alleged attacks, she wrote: 'I have multiple photos/videos of how violent he can be and all the bruises he has left me.'
Vasquez wrote in a separate section that asked for previous injuries: 'Nov 2020 hit me with his work boot. Aug 2020 hit me in the eye leaving me with purple eye'.
The mother was granted protection orders on both occasions, ordering Abrego Garcia to leave the home 'immediately' and have no contact 'or attempt to harass' her, court records show. However, both petitions were eventually dismissed because Vasquez failed to follow through with the proceedings and apparently reconciled with her husband.
The indictment of Abrego Garcia that charges him with transporting people who were in the United States illegally stems from a traffic stop in 2022 where a police officer suspected he was on a people-smuggling run
In other court paperwork, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, Vasquez's ex Ramos Trejo alleged in 2018 that Abrego Garcia was a gang member.
The dad was applying to Prince George's County Circuit Court for sole custody of his two children. He wrote by hand about Vasquez: 'She try to kill herself.' And he added in disjointed English but with a clear meaning: 'I'm afraid of my kids live are in danger because she is dating a gang member.'
Abrego Garcia's brother Cesar refused to answer any questions about his brother when DailyMail.com approached him at his $550,000 single-family home in Beltsville, Maryland.
Specifically, we asked for an explanation about his new charges related to the 2022 incident that had a police officer suspecting that Abrego Garcia had links to a convicted human trafficker and was on a people-smuggling run.
Driving an SUV, Abrego Garcia was pulled over in Tennessee by a state trooper and said he had been driving construction workers between jobs for the last three days, accofrding to a police report.. The journey started in Houston, Texas, with the final destination 1,400 miles away in Temple Hills, Maryland.
According to the report, there was no luggage in the black Chevrolet Suburban, and all the men gave Abrego Garcia's home address as theirs as well.
The now-incarcerated migrant was driving with an expired temporary license and told the state trooper the SUV belonged to his boss, Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, the report said.
So concerned was the trooper that he suspected Abrego Garcia was involved in human trafficking and arrested the nine men.
However, due to guidance from the Biden administration's FBI, Abrego Garcia was released with a warning for driving without a valid license.
Now, court and DHS intelligence documents seen by Just The News reportedly show that Abrego Garcia's 'boss' was a fellow Salvadoran illegal migrant and convicted human smuggler.
On December 2, 2019, a DHS special agent stopped a suspicious white Dodge Caravan minivan with New Mexico plates on Interstate I-10 in Gautier, Mississippi.
Inside the agent found nine migrant men. In the passenger seat was Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes – the man Abrego Garcia reportedly named as his 'boss.'
In August 2020, Hernandez Reyes pleaded guilty to four counts of 'aiding and abetting the illegal transportation of an alien within the United States' and was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.
Abrego Garcia's own journey into the United States meant crossing illegally at age 16, following gang threats in his home city San Salvador. He joined Cesar in Maryland before meeting dentist office employee Vasquez in 2016 and working as an HVAC installer.
While Democratic Senator Chris van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to meet Abrego Garcia as part of a campaign to 'bring him home', further alleged revelations of gang ties have emerged.
Trump administration border czar Tom Homan has called Abrego Garcia, 'an MS-13 gang member, public safety threat, [and] terrorist'.
In 2019, he was arrested while standing around with three known MS-13 gang members outside a Home Depot in Hyattsville, Maryland, according to police records. Vasquez said her husband was merely looking for work.
One of the MS-13 members was known as 'Bimbo' and had previous arrests for assault, burglary and concealing a dangerous weapon according to the document, called a 'Gang Field Interview Sheet'.
At the time, Abrego Garcia was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat which the police said was 'indicative of Hispanic gang culture' and showed he was a member in 'good standing' with MS-13.
The clothing allegedly represented 'see no evil, hear no evil', a gang motto.
According to the document, a detective spoke with a 'past and proven reliable source' who advised that Abrego Garcia was an 'active member of MS-13' with a clique known as the Westerns and had the rank of 'Chequeo' and the moniker 'Chele'.
In April 2019, a month later, a federal judge in Baltimore denied Abrego Garcia a bond and said that she found the claims about him being a gang member persuasive.
Judge Elizabeth Kessler wrote: 'The fact that a 'past, proven, and reliable source of information' verified the respondent's gang membership, rank, and gang name is sufficient to support that the respondent is a gang member, and the Respondent has failed to present evidence to rebut that assertion'.
However, in October of that year, a different judge freed him and allowed him to stay in the US indefinitely.
While Baltimore federal judge David Jones did not dismiss the allegation that he was an MS-13 member, he said that he was persuaded that Abrego Garcia would be persecuted if he returned to El Salvador.
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