ICE arrests Haitian alien in Boston on child assault and battery charges
BOSTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Jean Yves Yves Ovilme, a 37-year-old Haitian national, on Jan. 22 in Boston on charges of assault and battery and indecent assault and…
Gangs kill former Haitian senator amid spike in violence
By Harold Isaac PORT-AU-PRINCE – Gangs killed a former Haitian senator who led a government housing program on Saturday in an affluent area of Port-au-Prince, the prime minister said on Sunday, amid…
Haitian National Indicted for Firearms Trafficking
Denver – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Haitian national Peniel Olibris, age 32, was indicted on charges of smuggling goods, specifically firearms, from the United States.…
Haitian children who escaped gang violence take shelter in Port-au-Prince school
By Harold Isaac PORT-AU-PRINCE – Hundreds of Haitian children are taking refuge at a prestigious high school in Port-au-Prince after escaping gang violence in the town of Cite Soleil that killed some…
U.S. charges Haitian for role in 2021 kidnapping of missionaries
(Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said it had charged a Haitian gang member with hostage-taking for his role in the kidnapping of 16 American missionaries last year. Jean Pelice…
Haitian Gang Member Charged with Hostage Taking for Kidnapping of 16 U.S. Missionaries in Fall 2021
WASHINGTON – A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging Jean Pelice, a Haitian national, also known as “Zo,” with hostage taking for his role in the…
Rockland County Man Sentenced To 7 Years For Ponzi-Like Securities Fraud Scheme Targeting Local Haitian Community
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RULESS PIERRE was sentenced to 84 months in prison yesterday in connection with his Ponzi-like securities fraud…
Coast Guard calls off search for survivors from capsized Haitian migrant vessel
MIAMI – The U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday it had called off the search for survivors from last week’s capsizing of a vessel carrying Haitian migrants that left at least 11…
Haitian Police Officer Charged with International Narcotics Conspiracy, Narcotics Distribution, and Firearms Offense
Richard G. Frohling, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Bell of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Chicago Field Division, and Special Agent in…
Third Man Charged in Connection with Plot to Kill Haitian President
Miami, Florida – A Haitian citizen was extradited from Jamaica to the United States on Friday to face criminal charges in the Southern District of Florida related to his alleged involvement in…
Three Haitian Nationals and One U.S. Citizen Charged with Firearms Trafficking in Support of 400 Mawozo Gang in Haiti
WASHINGTON – An indictment was unsealed today charging four defendants with participating in a criminal conspiracy to violate U.S. export laws by smuggling firearms and munitions…
Haitian National Charged with International Narcotics Conspiracy, Narcotics Distribution, and Firearms Offense
Richard G. Frohling, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Robert J. Bell, Special Agent in Charge, United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Chicago Field Division, and Renita D. Foster,…
123 Haitian Migrants Apprehended in the Florida Keys
Haitian vessel in Summerland Key MIAMI— CBP Air and Marine Operations, the U.S. Border Patrol, CBP Office of Field Operations, USCG along with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners respond to maritime…
AMO, Border Patrol Rescue 10 Haitian Migrants Stranded in Desolate Island off Puerto Rico’s West Coast
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico— US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) and Border Patrol agents teamed up Tuesday to rescue a group of 10 undocumented migrants from Haiti left…
356 Haitian Migrants Intercepted in South Florida
MIAMI— U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations, the U.S. Border Patrol, Office of Field Operations, along with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners responded simultaneously to a maritime…
Boat packed with hundreds of Haitian migrants runs aground in Florida
By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON -U.S. authorities are investigating what appeared to be one of the largest human smuggling attempts off U.S. shores in years, after a boat packed with…
Previously Deported Haitian Citizen Arrested at the Cyril E. King Airport
St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands – U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced that a citizen of Haiti was arrested on February 14, 2022, at the Cyril E. King Airport on a…
Colombian National Charged in Connection with Plot to Kill Haitian President
A Colombian national was arrested based on a criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida. Mario Antonio Palacios, 43, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the…
Haitian Kidnappers Ask For $17 Million To Release American Missionaries
The Haitian gang that kidnapped a group of American missionaries that was returning from an orphanage construction site is demanding $17 million ransom, a top Haitian official said on Monday, The Wall…
Approaching Surge Of 60,000 Haitian Migrants Could Overwhelm Border, Texas Officials Say
Around 60,000 Haitian migrants could overwhelm border officials in Texas, state leadership said, the Washington Examiner reported on Tuesday. Texas law enforcement officials are reportedly preparing for over 60,000 migrants to attempt…
Who Are The Haitian Migrants Flooding The Border?
Haitian migrants overwhelmed the border in recent weeks, with 15,000 camped out under the Del Rio Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, at one point. To those seeking refuge in the U.S., any…
Attorney General James Voices Concern to President Biden Over Treatment of Haitian Refugees at the Texas Border
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James joined a coalition of 17 attorneys general in sending a letter to President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas…
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