Haiti’s most powerful gang leader, Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier. VOA, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons The U.S. government has announced a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Jimmy Cherizier, the notorious Haitian gang leader known as “Barbecue.” On August 12, 2025, a federal grand jury in Washington indicted him on charges of conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions and funnel money into gang activities in Haiti. According to prosecutors, Chérizier and co-conspirator Bazile Richardson raised funds from members of the Haitian diaspora in the United States beginning in December 2020 to pay gang salaries and purchase firearms. Despite U.S. sanctions already imposed on him that year for human rights abuses, and the May 2025 designation of his coalition, Viv Ansanm, as…
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