US EditionUS indicts Haitian gang leader Jimmy 'Barbeque' Cherizier for sanctions violations
- On Tuesday, a federal grand jury charged Haitian gang leader Jimmy Chérizier and U.S. citizen Bazile Richardson with collaborating to breach U.S. sanctions and finance gang-related operations in Haiti.
- The indictment follows a surge in gang violence that led to multiple attacks on government infrastructure and the release of over 4,000 inmates during raids on Haiti's two largest prisons in February 2024.
- Chérizier, a former elite police officer fired in 2018, leads the Viv Ansanm gang federation which controls 90% of Port-au-Prince and was blamed for massacres killing around 145 people in Cite Soleil.
- According to the indictment, Richardson and Chérizier solicited money transfers from the Haitian diaspora to pay gang members' salaries and buy weapons, with plans to collect payments from thousands domestically and abroad.
- The FBI’s Miami office is spearheading efforts to capture Chérizier amid ongoing violence, with the U.S. government providing a reward of up to $5 million for tips that result in his arrest or conviction.
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U.S. Grand Jury Indicts Haitian Gang Boss Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier
A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia has indicted one of Haiti’s most notorious gang bosses, Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, for conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions. The post U.S. Grand Jury Indicts Haitian Gang Boss Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier appeared first on Breitbart.
U.S. Grand Jury Indicts Infamous Haitian Gang Leader
A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia has returned an indictment against one of Haiti’s most notorious crime bosses, Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, for allegedly conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions. The grand jury indictment, which was issued on July 17 but not unsealed until Tuesday, named Cherizier and a North Carolina resident, Bazile “Fredo Pam” Richardson, as the leaders of a sprawling conspiracy to skirt U.S.-imposed sanctions and…
Jimmy Chérizier, alias “Barbecue”, is responsible for atrocious human rights abuses, including attacks on U.S. citizens in Haiti
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U.S. grand jury indicts one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders and one of his friends
A federal grand jury has indicted one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders and a U.S. citizen accused of conspiring with him to violate U.S. sanctions and fund gang activities in the troubled Caribbean country, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday.
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