The State Department did not say how he came to be released alongside a group of “wrongfully detained” prisoners.

Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a former U.S. Marine convicted of a triple homicide in Spain, was among 10 Americans repatriated in exchange for 250 Venezuelans held in El Salvador.

WASHINGTON (TNND) — One of the 10 Americans freed from a Venezuelan prison last week had been previously convicted in Venezuela for murdering three people in Spain in June 2016, according to records.