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U.S. indicts Haiti gang leader ‘Barbecue,’ offers $5 million reward for capture

WASHINGTON — Haiti’s most notorious gang leader has been indicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., after which the FBI announced a $5 million bounty for information leading to his…

John McCarthy August 12, 2025

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Haitian gang leader charged with ordering kidnapping of US couple that left 1 dead

WASHINGTON -- A powerful Haitian gang leader has been charged by U.S. prosecutors with ordering the kidnapping of an American couple from their home in Haiti that left the woman dead, authorities…

John McCarthy October 25, 2023

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Male Plaskett Employee Will Spend Two Years In Prison For Admitting To Circulating Topless Photo of Delegate

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] WASHINGTON -- Former employees of Del. Stacey Plaskett pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges related to distributing lewd images of the Virgin Islands congresswoman and her…

John McCarthy January 24, 2018

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Disgruntled Staff Members Make Court Appearance In Delegate Plaskett’s Cyberstalking Trial

WASHINGTON -- Two former staffers who worked for Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett who are facing criminal charges for circulating nude images and video of her and her husband appeared…

VI Free Press November 1, 2017