A U.S. jury has found a once powerful Haitian gang leader guilty of organizing the kidnapping of 16 U.S. citizens in 2021 and holding them hostage for more than two months. Germine Joly, whom ...

Germine Joly, once one of the most powerful gang leaders in Haiti – even when he was ... prosecutors argued in the trial. The kidnapped group comprised 12 adults and five children, including ...

Germine Joly, once one of the most powerful gang leaders in Haiti — even when he was ... prosecutors argued in the trial. The kidnapped group comprised 12 adults and five children, including ...

He also tried to suppress information at his trial, including his previous role in the kidnapping of several U.S. citizens in the summer of 2021, his leadership role in 400 Mawozo’s ...

missionaries in Haiti. Haiti National Police The ... In the run-up to the trial, Joly tried to get the kidnapping charges dismissed, arguing that he was illegally extradited to the U.S. by Haitian ...

The one-time ‘king’ of one of Haiti’s most violent criminal gang ... that funneled high-powered weapons to gang members using kidnapping proceeds, will soon learn if he will face more ...

“I knew that he was safe,” Pierre Maalouf said, adding that gangs in Haiti use kidnapping as a source ... but a security official familiar with the case told The Times that they paid less ...

The case snaked its ... violent gang in Haiti, but they were also intimately involved in arming the gang and laundering ransom proceeds the gang obtained from kidnapping Americans," Graves said ...

Though brought to the U.S. in connection with the missionaries’ kidnapping, Joly was put on trial on four dozen charges related to the smuggling of firearms to Haiti, a violation of U.S. export ...

Bates for a bench trial. The indictment accuses Tunis ... Joly, who was in prison in Haiti during the missionaries’ kidnapping but allegedly ran the gang’s operations, including hostage ...