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30209: Potemaksonje (News) Haitian police capture wanted gang leader in coastal city (fwd)
From: Potemaksonje@yahoo.com
Haitian police capture wanted gang leader in coastal
cityhttp://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/14/news/CB-GEN-Haiti-Gang-Leader-Arrested.php
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Haitian police have arrested a fugitive gang leader who
fled into hiding after U.N. peacekeepers launched a crackdown to seize control
of the country's largest slum, officials said.
Evens Jeunes, a top gang leader from the violent Cite Soleil slum, was
captured Tuesday during a raid in the southern coastal town of Les Cayes, U.N.
police spokesman Fred Blaise said. Police arrested 11 other suspects, including
a woman believed to be Jeunes' wife.
Jeunes, also known as Evens Tikouto, is wanted for ordering or carrying out a
string of killings and kidnappings that engulfed the impoverished Caribbean
nation after a bloody 2004 revolt toppled former president Jean-Bertrand
Aristide.
Residents in Les Cayes alerted police after seeing a man resembling Jeunes,
who went into hiding last month after hundreds of U.N. troops raided Cite
Soleil, a seaside shantytown of 300,000 people. No weapons were recovered in
the arrest.
"The good news is that people are turning in the gang leaders now," Blaise
said.
Jeunes was flown to Port-au-Prince aboard a U.N. plane but will remain in
Haitian custody, Blaise said.
The 8,800-strong U.N. force seized control of Cite Soleil for the first time
on Feb. 28 but failed to catch any of the top gang leaders, several whom fled
into rural areas.
On Monday, U.N. peacekeepers arrested 31 gang suspects and freed two
kidnapping victims in Cite Soleil.
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