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.

Haiti’s most notorious gang leader has been indicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., after which the FBI announced a $5 million bounty for information leading to his capture.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders and a U.S. citizen accused of conspiring with him to violate U.S. sanctions and fund gang activities in the troubled Caribbean country, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday.