Jimmy Chérizier, best known as "Barbecue," is a leader of a gang federation called Viv Ansanm that the U.S. has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

A federal grand jury has indicted Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, the leader of a powerful coalition of gangs that has paralyzed and terrorized Haiti, on charges of conspiring with Haitians and members of the Haitian diaspora in the United States to evade U.

The United States announced criminal charges against Haitian gang leader and former police officer Jimmy Barbeque Cherizier and a North Carolina man on Tuesday for conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions.