Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty Friday to human smuggling charges, and the judge in case said she would wait to issue a ruling on whether he should be released from custody pending trial. One week after he was brought back to the Unites States from detention in El Salvador,

Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old sheet metal worker from Maryland, was returned to the U.S. from El Salvador June 6 after he was indicted in the U.S District Court in Nashville on one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and one count of unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens. He now faces charges of human smuggling.