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.

The State Department is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to Chérizier’s arrest or conviction.

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.