30209: Potemaksonje (News) Haitian police capture wanted gang leader in coastal city (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

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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