They won their freedom only after a $350,000 ransom was paid and Joly’s co-gang leader, Lanmo Sanjou, set up their release to look like an escape to avoid his fellow gang member’s wrath.

The California Supreme Court on Thursday overturned an Atwater Village gang leader’s conviction and death sentence in a triple-murder case, finding that a juror was improperly excused as the ...

He and another witness, Jonas Isidor, testified that Joly wanted a big ransom for the hostages’ release because the gang leader knew that no one could pay the amount and his ultimate goal was to ...

Germine Joly, better known as Yonyon, was the leader of the gang 400 Mawozo, which was behind the 2021 kidnapping of 17 U.S.-based. missionaries in Haiti. Haiti National Police The one-time ...

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