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US Jury Convicts Once Powerful Haitian Gang Leader in Kidnapping of US Missionaries
- A U.S. Federal jury in Washington, D.C. Convicted Germine Joly, a former Haitian gang leader, for orchestrating the 2021 kidnapping of 16 U.S. Missionaries and a Canadian.
- The kidnapping occurred when the 400 Mawozo gang, co-led by Joly and Lanmo Sanjou, seized the group returning from an orphanage in Croix-des-Bouquets, demanding $1 million ransom each or Joly's release.
- Among the hostages were five children, including youngsters approximately six years old, three years old, and an infant under one year. They were kept at gunpoint for more than two months until a ransom of $350,000 was paid, and their release was orchestrated by a co-leader to appear as a breakout.
- Joly, arrested in 2014 and extradited to the U.S. In 2022, pleaded guilty earlier to weapons smuggling and ransom laundering, and received a 35-year sentence last year, with further sentencing pending after this conviction.
- Officials stated Joly leveraged American missionaries as bargaining chips to secure his prison release, highlighting the FBI's commitment to pursuing gang leaders abroad and protecting U.S. Citizens taken hostage.
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