The grand jury found that Abrego Garcia made the trips as part of a ring that trafficked guns, drugs, children and women, Bondi said. She said co-conspirators alleged that he abused women he was transporting and played a role in the killing of a rival gang member’s mother.

Kilmar Abrego García, who entered the United States illegally from El Salvador in about 2011, has been at the center of a high-profile legal struggle over the lack of due process in some of the Trump...

At the start of the legal battle, nearly three months ago, both sides agreed that Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador – and subsequent imprisonment in the country’s notorious mega-prison – was...