Crime

It has been estimated that Haiti has more than 250,000 illegal weapons in circulation causing insecurity.

Weapons Destroyer to cut down on Firearms in Haiti

HNP are endeavoring to decrease illegal firearms in circulation. With the help of the Canadian Police they set out to destroy 195 weapons at Freres Police Academy.

Police Commissioner Therriault donated a $50,000 weapons destroyer, capable of destroying 500 weapons daily. Currently there are 250,000-plus illegal handguns and assault rifles in circulation.

Therriault said ". . . the need to strengthen the national management and control system of gun licenses . . ." is imperative.

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Well-known Haitian promoter Ewald Etienne was found dead by Montreal police outside a home in Montreal on Thursday, December 18, 2014,

What is further speculated, is that the two men who contracted the debt left the country, leaving Mr. Etienne with the debt. He then filed a complaint with the authorities and was promptly threatened to withdraw it, but was unable to. Whether this is a viable lead remains unsaid by the police, but witnesses had described Etienne as being scared following the affair.

His death has been the third murder in the northeast region of Montreal within the last three weeks. It puts the yearly total just one homicide down from the 28 of 2013.

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Here is a picture of Mayor Lucie Tondreau before her arrest by FBI for mortgage fraud. She was the first Haitian-American woman to hold the position. She has been a Haitian activist in the Haitian community in Miami for several years

Her three other co-conspirators were Karl Oreste, Marie Okechukwu Josiah and Kelly Augustin.

Oreste used to identify residential properties in South Florida that were open to sale. Oreste and Tondreau advertised the unique services offered by KMC Mortgage. They recruited some paid individuals who posed as the borrowers of KMC Mortgage. The conspirators prepared loan applications for these straw borrowers with false information which were submitted to various mortgage lenders throughout the United States. Once these loan applications were approved, the lenders wired loan funds to O.J. Odunna, and other title companies for closing. The conspirators created and submitted several duplicate HUD-1 Settlement Statement Forms where the price of the property was grossly inflated and it represented many false cash and down payments of earlier loans by the straw borrowers to close obligations which they never made. The disbursed portion of the loan amount was channelled through Oreste's corporation to the conspirators' bank and other accounts. A substantial portion of the funds went to Tondreau's bank accounts of the LTO Investment Corporation. It has been estimated that the lenders have suffered a loss amounting around $8 million. If convicted, the conspirators may face a maximum term of 30 years in prison.

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Francois Presley who has been working as a security guard in front of Chez Le Bebe Restaurant in Little Haiti was found dead Monday night(December 8, 2014). The testaurant is located on Northeast 54th Street

Police who is investigating the crime has no suspects or motive for the shooting.

The shooting death of 50-year-old Francois Presley, outside the Little Haiti restaurant where he worked, Chez Le Bebe Restaurant, has left the community shaken and his family asking for public assistance to apprehend the person responsible. Presley had been employed to the company for a year, and was found in his uniform, shot dead while sitting in his car. As of yet, the police have no suspects, nor a motive, for Presley's killing, leaving his grieving widow to question why the act was committed.

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The execution of Rebels Marcel Numa and Louis Drouin by the forces of Francois Duvalier regime. This was an event that probably marked many people who were living in Haiti in 1964. Children were released from school all over the country to come and watch this horrifying act, the execution of Rebel Marcel Numa and Louis Drouin by a firing squade.

On November 12, 1964, Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier commanded the execution of rebels Louis Drouin and Marcel Numa, the final two members of the ill-fated group which had been campaigning against him. By then, the other resistance members had been killed during combat. That day, offices of the government closed their blinds while students were pulled from schools to witness as the two men were tied to posts made of pine, read their last rites, and shot by firing squad.

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Here is a picture of Woodley Ethéart aka Sonson La Familia. He has been accused for heading a gang responsible for the kidnapping of several people.

The Haitian National Police (PNH) has been looking for the powerful leader of "Gang Galil", accused for its involvement in kidnapping and drug trafficking.

His wife, Marie Taïssa Mazile Etheart, was recently taken after a hearing by judge Sonel Jean-François in charge of the dossier submitted by the prosecution against her husband

, a very close associate of President Michel Martelly

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Here is a picture of Mr. Markington Philippe accused in the crime of Journalist Jean Dominique. , suspect Jean Dominique killing, arrested in Argentina. According to information received in our office, and news just published on bernama.com, the Haitian press freedom watchdog, SOS Journalistes, has confirmed that Argentine authorities have arrested Mr. Markington Philippe in Argentine.

The two governments were in the process of working together to extradite Markington Philippe to Haiti to stand in trial.

This arrest took place as a result of an investigation that was conducted by Judge Ivickel Dabrezil and an international arrest warrant was issued consequently for his arrest

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Here is a picture of the General Coordinator of the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organizations. Dorsinvil Daniel who was 48 years old was assassinated along side with his wife d his wife Girldy Larèche who was 46. The killing took place on Saturday, February 8, 2014 in Bois-Patate

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