A Los Angeles attorney detained in Venezuela is pleading for help from the Biden administration and spoke with abc7jessica exclusively on what he's been seeing and what he fears the most.
A Los Angeles attorney detained in Venezuela is pleading for help from the Biden administration, saying in a jailhouse message that he feels forgotten by the U.S. government.The family of a Los Angeles County Public Defender who has been detained in Venezuela since March said they want to sit down with President Joe Biden to ask him to help bring their loved one home.
Hernandez's colleague Drew Havens said Hernandez has dedicated his life to helping other and it pains him to see him go through this. "He says, 'I'm not trying to cross. I'm just simply accompanying my friend to get her passport stamped,'" and they seen that he was an American and basically kidnapped," Martinez said.
In statement emailed to Eyewitness News on Friday, a spokesperson with the State Department confirmed the arrestin 2022 of a U.S. citizen in Venezuela."We can confirm the arrest in 2022 of a U.S. citizen in Venezuela. We take seriously our commitment to assist U.S. citizens abroad. We arein touch with the family and are closely monitoring the situation.