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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Oct 21, 2015
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• Category : Diaspora News
• Description : Miami Herald
  
  AUGUST 18, 2015
  
  BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND JAY WEAVER
  jcharles@MiamiHerald.com
  
  Photo: Beaudouin “Jacques” Ketant was sentenced to 27 years in a U.S. prison for smuggling cocaine between Haiti and the United States. He has been deported to Haiti after having his sentenced chopped in half earlier this year.
• Location : Miami, FL, United States
• Website : http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article31477788.html

Overview

• Beaudouin “Jacques” Ketant, a convicted Haitian cocaine trafficker who accused former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of turning a blind eye to the cocaine coming through what he called a “narco-state,” has been deported to Haiti.
  
  Ketant arrived in Port-au-Prince Tuesday along with 16 other deportees aboard a special U.S. government flight, a police source told the Miami Herald. The flight then flew from Port-au-Prince to the Dominican Republic to drop off 50 Dominican deportees.
  
  Upon his arrival, Ketant was immediately taken into custody by the Haitian National Police and then released after a relative took responsibility for him. Before leaving the police station, Ketant was fingerprinted and photographed, according to procedure.
  
  Ketant’s return to Haiti comes four days after a Miami jury convicted a Haitian National Police commander, Claude “Teleco” Thelemaque, on a drug-trafficking conspiracy charge. Thelemaque, who faces up to life in prison, is the latest Haitian law enforcement officer to be taken down in a saga dating back more than a decade when Ketant helped exposed Haiti as a “narco-state.”
  
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