Haitian gang leader Germine Joly was convicted in the United States of kidnapping 17 Christian missionaries in 2021.

Germine Joly, best known as “Yonyon,” had pleaded guilty in late January to weapons smuggling and the laundering of ransoms related to the U.S. citizens kidnapped in October 2021, bringing his ...

Prosecutors said Joly Germine, 31, who had led the 400 Mawozo gang, was involved in a conspiracy that used ransom money that had been paid for the release of American hostages to buy and smuggle ...

US judge sentences Germine Joly, former leader of a powerful gang in Haiti, to 35 years in prison The leader of a notoriously violent gang in Haiti linked to the kidnapping of 16 U.S. citizens has ...

Joly was co-leader of the 400 Mawozo, which translates roughly to “400 Simpletons,” one of Haiti’s most powerful gangs. It controls part of Croix-des-Bouquets, a neighborhood in the eastern ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A man who once described himself as “king” of a notoriously violent gang in Haiti and is linked to the kidnapping of 16 U.S. citizens was sentenced to 35 years ...