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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Brian Ellsworth

U.S. charges Haitian gang leaders for 2021 missionary kidnapping

FILE PHOTO: People are seen at the Christian Aid Ministries compound after the organisation announced the release of three missionaries who were kidnapped along with others in October, in Titanyen, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti December 6, 2021. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol/File Photo

The United States has unsealed charges against a group of Haitian gang leaders, including three men involved in last year's kidnapping of U.S. missionaries, the Department of Justice said on Monday.

Joseph Wilson, known as Lanmo Sanjou, and Jermaine Stephenson, aka Gaspiyay, of the 400 Mawozo gang that took responsibility for the October 2021 kidnapping, were charged with hostage taking and conspiracy to commit hostage taking.

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