D.C. Grand Jury Indicts Haitian Gang Leader with Hostage Taking and Death of U.S. Citizen

On October 24, 2023, the Department of Justice announced the unsealing of a grand jury indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colombia, charging Vitel’homme Innocent, a Haitian national and leader of the Kraze Barye gang, for engaging in the October 2022 armed hostage taking, in Haiti, of two U.S. citizens, one of whom was killed during the event.