There's an arms race in Haiti, and it's fueled by Florida's pipeline of weapons of war – Hartford Courant
Federal officials readily admit that Florida is the main U.S. pipeline for weapons headed to the Caribbean and South America.
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Federal officials readily admit that Florida is the main U.S. pipeline for weapons headed to the Caribbean and South America.
MIAMI — While heavy gunfire was paralyzing Haiti’s capital in late February, a man using a fake name approached a 45-foot cargo container parked in a Fort Lauderdale lot. He
“There can be a bad guy in front of you and you don’t even know it.”
When Walder St. Louis entered the Miami pawnshop in October 2021, two AK-47s and an AR-15 were on his shopping list. Germine Joly, then head of the Haitian gang 400 Mawozo, had placed the order from a Port-au-Prince prison. St. Louis would soon send two barrels of firearms back to the Haitian capital.
The head of a notorious armed gang linked to the kidnapping of U.S. citizens in Haiti, including 16 missionaries, decided to plead guilty to federal weapons smuggling charges Tuesday while in the middle of his federal trial in Washington, D.C.