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Jacques Beaudouin Ketant, a Haitian drug kingpin, close friend and business partner of Haiti's uncommonly vicious tyrant, hell-sent totalitarian dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide, taken out of the circulation in tight handcuffs on June 17, 2003, in Haiti, by U.S. Drug Enforcement agents and his mansion, but has since been in a Miami jail cell - June 20-21, 2003

                             

The notorious drug kingpin

                                     

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His ultra-luxury mansion

                                                                       

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The mansion of accused drug kingpin Haitian Jacques Beaudoin Ketant looks out over a neighborhood in Petion-ville, Haiti, on Friday, June 20, 2003. For six years, Ketant lived the good life, using alleged drug proceeds to buy fancy cars, a mansion and a highbrow education for his children. But a recent brawl at his son's elite private school prompted Ketant's expulsion to the United States, where was indicted in 1997 on charges of heading a drug network that smuggled cocaine into the United States.(AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                                

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Surveillance cameras peer down from the high wall surrounding the Petion-ville, Haiti mansion of accused drug kingpin Haitian Jacques Beaudoin Ketant, on Friday, June 20, 2003. For six years, Ketant lived the good life, using alleged drug proceeds to buy fancy cars, a mansion and a highbrow education for his children. But a recent brawl at his son's elite private school prompted Ketant's expulsion to the United States, where was indicted in 1997 on charges of heading a drug network that smuggled cocaine into the United States.(AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                            

The spokeswoman

                                                      

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Judith Trunzo, spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, holding a press conference and answering journalists' questions about the arrest of drug lord Jacques Beaudouin Ketant. 
                       
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The New York Times - Tuesday, March 9, 2004

                                               

Tyrant Aristide, I don't want to be your pet national police chief ... I quit, I go into exile - June 22, 2003

                                                                       

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Former Haitian Police Chief Jean-Robert Faveur, who resigned on June 21, 2003, after only two weeks on the job, talks to friends, family and supporters in his new office in front of a portrait of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in this June 6 photo, after his swearing in at Police Headquarters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo)
                        

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Former Haitian Police Chief Jean-Robert Faveur, center, who resigned on June 21, 2003, after only two weeks on the job, stands next to Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, wearing red tie, in this June 6, 2003 photo, after his swearing in at Police Headquarters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo)
                                            

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Haiti's chief of Police, Jean-Robert Faveur, 37, salutes a fellow officer during his first moments in his new office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in this Friday, June 6, 2003 photo. Two weeks after he became Haiti's new acting police chief, Faveur resigned and went into self-imposed exile because of alleged government interference and threats to his life, according to news reports Sunday June 22, 2003 .(AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                    

The polic academy

                           

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Seen is the headquarters of the National Haitian Police Monday, June 23, 2003 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti's new police chief went into exile Sunday, and the opposition said Monday his resignation will make it difficult to hold credible elections this year to break the nation's political stalemate.(AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                         

A Serious competition - June 22, 2003

                                                                                        

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Coraly Moscoso executes a jump at the Chateaublond Equestrian Center during the second day of the Mercedes Cup competition which brought together about two dozen riders from two clubs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday, June 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                         

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Marc-Alex Gardere on Hercules finishes the one-meter round at the Chateaublond Equestrian Center during the second day of the Mercedes Cup competition which brought together about two dozen riders from two clubs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday, June 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                        
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