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Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested by national authorities Saturday successful Miami, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
The charges against the brace were not instantly announced by U.S. authorities. Brady McCarron, a spokesperson for the Marshals Service, told The Associated Press that the warrant was sealed.
"Today, U.S. Marshals successful the Southern District of Florida arrested Andrew and Tristan Tate pursuant to extradition proceedings," a Department of Justice spokesperson told CBS News successful a statement. "These arrests were made successful accordance with the treaties and instrumentality enforcement agreements governing Justice Department extraditions."
The Crown Prosecution Service, an enactment that prosecutes transgression cases successful England, said that 4 much victims of the brothers came forward, announcing further charges of rape, enactment trafficking, battle and child/extreme pornography.
Andrew Tate, right, and his member Tristan get astatine an event, April 11, 2026, successful Miami.
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According to CPS, Andrew Tate, 39, is facing "seven much counts of rape, 3 counts of arranging oregon facilitating trafficking for intersexual exploitation, 3 counts of battle occasioning existent bodily harm, and 19 further charges for offenses related to indecent images of a kid and utmost pornography."
Tristan Tate, 38, is being prosecuted by CPS with "one number of intersexual assault, 2 counts of rape, and 3 counts of arranging oregon facilitating trafficking for intersexual exploitation."
The incidents allegedly took spot betwixt July 2010 and August 2017.
"These charging decisions followed receipt of a further record of grounds from Bedfordshire Police and bring the full fig of alleged victims successful this lawsuit to seven," said Malcolm McHaffie, caput of the CPS's peculiar transgression division.
An lawyer representing the Tate brothers, Joseph McBride, said successful a connection that Andrew and Tristan Tate are innocent, calling the arrests a "political hit."
"This extradition request has 1 purpose: to kidnap Andrew and Tristan done paperwork earlier an American assemblage exposes the information to the full world," McBride said successful the statement. "We are assured that erstwhile a competent justice sees the facts, and erstwhile the Department of Justice confronts this egregious maltreatment of its ain authority, Andrew and Tristan Tate volition locomotion free. America does not bash Britain's governmental soiled work. Not here. Never."
The brothers, proponents of hypermasculinity who person millions of followers connected societal media, person been wanted successful the United Kingdom, wherever they look rape and quality trafficking charges.
The brothers are dual U.S. and British citizens who moved to Romania successful 2016. They were arrested determination successful 2022, accused of participating successful schemes to lure women for intersexual exploitation. They denied those allegations and the lawsuit didn't spell guardant because of ineligible and procedural irregularities.
The erstwhile nonrecreational kickboxers person amassed a pursuing of fans, peculiarly young men and boys, by professing a manner of luxury and unapologetic misogyny.
The pending charges successful the United Kingdom accused the brothers of abusing women betwixt 2012 and 2015 successful an country northbound of London, wherever they grew up. Their lawyers had said they denied the allegations.
Ana Maria Soler contributed to this report.
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