Haitian police: Gang member accused of kidnapping Americans extradited to the US

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian legislation enforcement government stated a person belonging to a violent gang accused of kidnapping 4 U.S. electorate has been extradited to the U.S.

Haiti’s National Police stated Tuesday that Jhon Peter Fleronvil is affiliated with the gang referred to as “Kokorat San Ras,” roughly translated to mean “Cohorts of No Race.”

Fleronvil was extradited on Monday and faces charges of abducting four U.S. citizens in Haiti’s central Artibonite region in July 2022, police said.

Fleronvil was arrested in September in the northern coastal town of Fort Liberte as he tried to flee to the nearby border with the Dominican Republic, authorities said.

According to a recent U.N. report, “Kokorat San Ras, despite its limited numbers, is also a very brutal gang” that operates in the Artibonite region. Its roughly 20 members have “committed acts of extreme violence, forcing people to abandon large areas of cropland and threatening agricultural production.”

The gang has been accused of murder, robbery, rape, kidnapping and the hijacking of trucks and goods, according to the report.

Last yr, the chief of every other Haitian gang was once extradited to the U.S. and charged in reference to the October 2021 kidnapping of 16 U.S. missionaries. Germine Joly, 29, who’s often referred to as “Yonyon,” is accused of main the 400 Mawozo gang. The identify more or less interprets to “400 Simpletons.”