Dahud Hanid Ortiz arrived in Texas on Friday waving an American flag, El País reported Tuesday ... The murders took place in 2016 in Madrid, but he fled to Venezuela, where he remained free until 2018 ...

In a December 2023 swap, Venezuela released 10 Americans and returned former defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis — better known by his nickname “Fat Leonard” — to the United States.

The swap involved the exchange of 10 Americans held in Venezuela for the release of more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who had been deported from the U.S. and sent to El Salvador's CECOT prison.