Canadian drug dealer of Haitian origin jailed in the United States is sent back to Canada
A Canadian drug dealer of Haitian descent who was until recently jailed in the United States was turned over to Canadian authorities earlier this month. Laveaux François, 56, known to have trafficked cocaine between Haiti and the United States, escaped from a correctional facility in the Montreal area in 1994 on leave. According to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), he fled to Haiti. Four years before that run, in 1990, he was arrested by US authorities in Miami while attempting to unload a large quantity of cocaine from a ship.
For this crime, he was convicted and sentenced to 324 months incarceration. His sentence was then reduced to 180 months. A few years later, in September 1994, François was transferred to Canada to finish serving his sentence. After eight months of incarceration, on leave authorized by Correctional Service Canada, the individual took the opportunity to return to his native country where he resumed his activities in the drug trafficking sector, according to US authorities .
The fugitive was arrested again in July 2007 by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), this time in Haiti, and was extradited to the United States. In December 2007, he was sentenced again to a term of imprisonment for 400 months. His sentence was later reduced to 158 months. On October 26, when he was released from the Moshannon Valley Correctional Center in Pennsylvania, Laveaux François was arrested, subject to an expedited expulsion notice from the United States for non-compliance with the US immigration law. as an immigrant without a valid visa or other document necessary for his admission ". The man was handed over "without incident" to Canadian authorities on December 4 under an arrest warrant issued by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The nature of the arrest warrant against him was not specified, but could be related to his escape from his permission in the mid-1990s.
