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 who worked in Haiti as missionaries. The ...

As a teenager in Haiti, Germine Joly says, he was exposed to unspeakable horrors by armed groups: there were rapes, some of them incestuous, and killings where victims’ hearts were cut out while they ...

Germine Joly, better known as "Yonyon," was transferred aboard a special Federal Bureau of Investigation flight on Tuesday, May 3 to the U.S. following a request from the U.S. on April 22. Joly is the ...

Gang leader Germine Joly, better known as “Yonyon,” pleaded guilty in January 2024 to four dozen charges in the United States relating to weapons smuggling from South Florida into Haiti. He was ...

(Reuters) – A Miami court today sentenced Germine “Yonyon” Joly, a former leader of a notorious Haitian gang known as 400 Mawozo, to 35 years in prison for his role in laundering kidnap ransoms and ...

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WASHINGTON — Germine Joly, the self-described “king” of Haiti’s notoriously violent 400 Mawozo gang, was sentenced on Wednesday to life in federal prison without parole for orchestrating the ...