Just before he was set to become an official Haitian senator, a paramilitary leader who once led a violent rebellion was arrested on decade-old U.S. drug charges and brought before a federal judge in Miami who ordered him held without bail.
Guy Philippe, 48, was a key figure in the 2004 ouster of then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and later ran for president himself. He was indicted in 2005 on U.S. cocaine trafficking charges but managed to elude capture, including unsuccessful raids involving Drug Enforcement Administration agents and helicopters on his remote residence.
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