Three Haiti-born naturalized U.S. citizens, including a trucker who lives in Fayetteville, N.C., have been charged with trying to orchestrate the violent overthrow of the Haitian government by providing weapons and money to one of their homeland's most notorious gang leaders.

Bazile Richardson and two other unnamed co-conspirators were indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on charges of assisting Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier, the former police officer who became leader of the G9 and Family gang and now is one of the heads of the powerful Viv Ansanm gang coalition.

Richardson, who described himself as a close friend who grew up with Chérizier, is accused of conspiring with others in the U.S., Haiti and elsewhere to violate U.S. sanctions, according to the redacted ind

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