Florida resident convicted of illegally supplying firearms from the United States to 400 Mawozo, a violent Haitian gang that kidnapped 19 Americans.
Jocelyn Dor, aged 31, is a Haitian citizen residing in Orlando, in Florida. He was arrested and then tried on charges relating to the criminal organization 400 Mawozo. Sentenced this Wednesday, the individual will spend 60 months in prison for illegally supplying around twenty firearms and ammunition from the United States to 400 Mawozo, an armed group led by Lanmò 100 jou operating in the commune of Croix-des-Bouquets.
“Jocelyn Dor, 31, a Haitian citizen residing in Orlando, Florida, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for participating in a highly sophisticated smuggling scheme that exported or attempted to export at least 24 firearms from the United States to Haiti, as well as hundreds of rounds of ammunition”we read in a press release published by the United States embassy in Port-au-Prince.
Indeed, Judge John D. Bates of the United States District Court (US District Court) sentenced Dor to three years of parole. Dor pleaded guilty on October 30, 2023, to conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act, violation of the Export Control Reform Act, and money laundering to promote a specific illegal activity.
According to what the United States Embassy in Port-au-Prince explained, “Dor acted as a straw buyer (secret agent) for 400 Mawozo. From September 18, 2021 to October 17, 2021, he purchased 10 high-powered semi-automatic rifles from gun stores in the Orlando area, at the direction of Germine, for the express purpose of shipping these weapons to the leaders of the 400 gang Mawozo in Haiti. Rifles were intended for combat.
One of the weapons, a 50 caliber Barrett rifle, is primarily used by the military against heavy machinery. Dor falsely represented to arms dealers that he was the “real buyer” of these weapons. He also received multiple transfers of thousands of US dollars from his accomplices to ensure payment.”
Note that Dor was initially charged in an indictment dating from May 2022 which named co-defendants Joly Germine, also known as Yonyon, (31 years old), a Haitian national, and Eliande Tunis, (45 years old) , a United States citizen from Pompano Beach, Florida.
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