Haiti gang leader back on trial in U.S., this time for missionaries’ 2021 kidnapping. Jacqueline Charles. Wed, May 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM UTC. 4 min read.

In this file photo, Haitian gang leader Germine Joly, better known as “Yonyon,” heads to trial on Jan. 17, 2024. (Haiti National Police/TNS) Cellule Communication/Haiti National Police/TNS.

Senior U.N. officials warn that Haiti’s gangs have gained “near-total control” of the capital and authorities are unable to ...

A gang leader in Haiti who controls a key port in its capital was accused of slaughtering the elderly and Vodou religious leaders in droves during a bloody campaign to avenge his son's death over ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A gang leader who controls a key port in Haiti's capital is accused of massacring older people and Vodou religious leaders in his community to avenge his son's death ...

A video that circulated widely on the internet recently showed a Haitian gang leader, Joseph Wilson, shirtless, happily showing off belts of .50 caliber ammunition, mockingly saying he used the ...

U.N. reportedly evacuating some staff from Haiti amid gang violence 04:10. The United Nations human rights chief said Monday that 184 people were killed over the weekend in the Haitian capital, as ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti − Armed men belonging to Haiti's Gran Grif gang killed at least 70 people, including three infants, and forced at least 3,000 to flee as they swept through a town shooting ...

A new video released by the Haitian police a few days ago suggests that a notorious gang leader, Vitel’homme Innocent, who has a $2 million bounty on his head, was under attack and running for ...

The one-time ‘king’ of one of Haiti’s most violent criminal gang, already looking at spending 35 years in a U.S. prison for his role in a gunrunning conspiracy that funneled ...

Germine Joly, once one of the most powerful gang leaders in Haiti — even when he was behind prison bars — has been found guilty of kidnapping 16 U.S. citizens ...