The Trump administration reportedly plans to seize a second plane that belongs to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government that is now parked in the Dominican Republic.

The official announcement is set to made Thursday by Secretary of State Marco during a visit to Santo Domingo, the last stop of his five-nation tour of Central America. Rubio previously visited Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala, according to the State Department's public schedule.

Early last week, the department submitted a foreign-aid, freeze-waiver request to pay more than $230,000 in storage and maintenance fees for the craft, and the U.S. Justice Department approved it, as reported by the Associated Press.

The plane is a Dassault Falcon 200 that Maduro and his top aides, such as his vice president and defense minister, had been using to travel the world. The document obtained by the wire sevice  stated that the U.S. government considered the politicians violated U.S. sanctions by traveling to Greece, Turkey, Russia and Cuba via the plane.

Last year, the U.S. government seized another of Maduro's planes, a Dassault Falcon 900EX, equivalent to Air Force One, after determining that its acquisition violated U.S. sanctions. Two U.S. officials told CNN that the government flew the plane to Florida on Sept. 2, 2024.

"This sends a message all the way up to the top," one of the officials said. "Seizing the foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of for criminal matters. We’re sending a clear message here that no one is above the law, no one is above the reach of U.S. sanctions."

Former US Attorney General Merrick Garland said at the time that “the Justice Department seized an aircraft we allege was illegally purchased for $13 million through a shell company and smuggled out of the United States for use by Nicolás Maduro and his cronies.”

The department added that the plane was purchased from a company in Florida and illegally exported in April 2023 from the U.S. to Venezuela through the Caribbean. Just like the Dassault Falcon 200, Maduro also used this plane for international travel.

The Venezuelan government criticized the U.S. government by claiming that the seizure of the first plane was "piracy."

“The United States has already demonstrated that it uses its economic and military power to intimidate and pressure states such as the Dominican Republic to serve as accomplices in its criminal acts. This is an example of the supposed ‘rules-based order,' which, disregarding international law, seeks to establish the law of the strongest,” the statement said.