Haiti: UN mission and local police arrest four men at heart of kidnapping gang
| Publisher | UN News Service |
| Publication Date | 31 May 2008 |
| Cite as | UN News Service, Haiti: UN mission and local police arrest four men at heart of kidnapping gang, 31 May 2008, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4860ae7026.html [accessed 29 May 2023] |
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Working with the Haitian National Police, officers with the mission (known as MINUSTAH) arrested the suspects in a joint raid in two districts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, according to a press statement issued yesterday.
The four men are accused of forming the heart of a gang known as Chochonet, which is being investigated for several recent kidnappings and killings.
MINUSTAH, which said the arrests were carried out without incident, thanked the local population for providing the information that led to the arrests.
The mission reiterated its call for Haitians to cooperate with its troops and with members of the national police to combat persistently high levels of crime, particularly kidnappings, across the Caribbean country.
