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    Frantzy Jean-Marie Gets LWOP in 2003 FL Terrorist Boyz Gang Murders

    'Murder after murder.' After nine killed, Terrorist Boyz gang case finally goes to trial

    At first, they were just North Miami middle school kids who liked to brawl.

    But as they grew up, a prosecutor told jurors, the teens also wanted to "come up" — get guns, hit the streets and exact revenge for every petty slight and disrespect they got from rivals on North Miami's west side. So they engineered a daring heist, ramming a stolen station wagon through the storefront of a Miramar gun shop in March 2002 and making off with 33 guns.

    "These kids — these soon-to-be Terrorist Boyz — were now armed and ready," prosecutor Joshua Weintraub told jurors on Tuesday during the opening day of a sprawling case that has dragged on in the legal system for years — making it the most expensive taxpayer-funded capital murder case in recent Florida history, even before any of the gang members had come to trial.

    That gun ripoff, Weintraub said, was just the start. Week after week, the group dressed in black, pulled on ski masks and went on "missions" to find their enemies, repeatedly killing or wounding unsuspecting enemies, he said. "The spring of 2002 was a killing spree in North Miami and North Miami Beach. Murder after murder after murder. Out of control."

    It's the first of a string of Terrorist Boyz cases to go to trial — more than a decade after a grand jury first indicted five members of the Haitian-American street gang. Frantzy Jean-Marie, 35, faces the death penalty if convicted on four counts of first-degree murder; he also faces six counts of attempted murder.

    In 2003, the gang's violence rocked North Miami-Dade and led to the creation of a task force and operation dubbed "Blazing Fort." In all, investigators believe, the Terrorist Boyz gang was responsible for at least 12 murders and dozens of shootings, although gang members have been charged in only nine murders.

    Among the dead, investigators believe: a man the gang suspected of urinating on the flowers on the grave of one gang member's murdered brother; a 13-year-old boy shot dead while riding his bicycle home; and Gertrude LeFleur, a pregnant woman who identified the gang's ringleader as the man who robbed her.

    That ringleader was Johnny Charles, also known as the ''Angel of Death,'' police said. The others charged: Benson Cadet, Max Daniel, Robert St. Germain and Jean-Marie. St. Germain pleaded guilty two years ago and agreed to a 12-year prison sentence.

    Four others will serve as jailhouse witnesses against the gang — a clear target for defense lawyers looking to shift the blame.

    "I don't know if I should call them rats, snitches, co-defendants, unindicted co-conspirators," Jean-Marie's defense lawyer G.P. Della Fera told jurors. "They're not nice people. You can call them liars."

    The trial is expected to last more than one month before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Dava Tunis.

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    'Terrorist Boyz' gang member faces death penalty after convictions for Miami murder spree

    BY DAVID OVALLE
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    A North Miami man is facing the death penalty after a jury on Friday convicted him of taking part in a murder spree by a notorious street gang known as the Terrorist Boyz.

    Jurors convicted Frantzy Jean-Marie, 35, after nearly seven weeks of trial testimony from police detectives, eyewitnesses and former gang members turned state witnesses.

    He was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, and acquitted of two others. Jean-Marie was also convicted of four counts of attempted murder, plus conspiracy and racketeering. The verdict was announced under heavy security.

    Prosecutors outlined the rise of the gang, which culminated in months of violence that rocked North Miami-Dade in 2002. In all, detectives believe, the Terrorist Boyz gang was responsible for at least 12 murders and dozens of shootings, although gang members have been charged in only nine murders.

    Among those killed: a man the gang suspected of urinating on the flowers on the grave of one gang member's murdered brother; a 13-year-old boy shot dead while riding his bicycle home; and Gertrude LeFleur, a pregnant woman who identified the gang's ringleader as the man who robbed her.

    "Twenty-four crime scenes ... Some of the most violent murders imaginable," prosecutor Joshua Weintraub told jurors during closing arguments on Monday.

    Those indicted in 2008 were Johnny Charles, also known as the ''Angel of Death,''and Benson Cadet, Max Daniel, Robert St. Germain and Jean-Marie. St. Germain pleaded guilty two years ago and agreed to a 12-year prison sentence.

    Defense attorneys shifted the blame to the gang members who flipped against Jean-Marie.

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    'Terrorist Boyz" murder trial finishes

    By David Ovalle
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    A prosecutor presents closing arguments against Frantzy Jean-Marie, the reputed gang member accused of multiple murders and shootings in North Miami-Dade in 2002.

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    Jurors spare life of gang member. He didn’t pull trigger, but will spend life in prison

    BY CHARLES RABIN
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    Frantzy Jean-Marie, a suspected gang member convicted last month of killing a confidential informant and his girlfriend 15 years ago, had his life spared Tuesday, but will spend the rest of it prison.

    The same jury that convicted Jean-Marie, 35, of two counts of first-degree murder, four counts of attempted murder and conspiracy and racketeering last month, spent just over an hour deliberating life or death for the 35-year-old who prosecutors say belonged to a violent and murderous street gang known as the Terrorist Boyz.

    The 12-member jury spared Jean-Marie’s life after reaching the conclusion after his four-month trial that ended in June, that he did not pull the trigger - but was guilty of the murder of Armstrong Riviere and his girlfriend Stephanie Adams at a Northwest Miami-Dade apartment complex in March of 2003. During the same trial, Jean-Marie was acquitted of the murders of two men who were shot to death as they left Jumbo’s Restaurant in October 2002.

    Prosecutors argued that the Terrorist Boyz had discovered Riviere was working with federal law enforcement to shut down the gang’s activities and had marked him for death. Florida law allows for a first-degree murder conviction if the defendant didn’t pull the trigger, but took part in a crime that led to a murder.

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    Lengthy trial in North Miami Terrorist Boyz gang case ends in hung jury, three verdicts

    By David Ovalle
    Miami Herald

    After more than six weeks of trial, a jury deadlocked Friday on more than a dozen counts against a reputed member of North Miami’s Terrorist Boyz gang, while convicting him of one charge, and acquitting him of two others.

    The hung jury led a Miami-Dade judge to declare a mistrial against Benson Cadet, who was accused of participating in a bloody street war over a decade ago that led to the killings of at least 12 people, and dozens of other shootings.

    The jury did agree to convict Cadet of one count of conspiracy to commit racketeering, while acquitting him of one murder charge, and one attempted murder charge. The jury began deliberating on Tuesday, but could not reach a unanimous verdict on 15 counts.

    Cadet had been facing the death penalty. Friday’s mistrial means Cadet faces a second trial that could last months between jury selection, testimony, arguments and deliberations.

    “We will continue to prosecute Benson Cadet upon retrial of this case because we believe the evidence speaks to his direct involvement in these vicious street crimes in the cities of North Miami and North Miami Beach,” State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a statement Friday afternoon.

    Prosecutors say the Terrorist Boyz began their reign of terror in March 2002, after ramming a car through the front door of a Broward County gun shop and stealing 33 firearms. Dressed in all-black, wearing ski masks and gloves, the Terrorist Boyz used the weapons and stolen cars to mount a series of “missions” to gun down their enemies, prosecutors said.

    Cadet, 36, himself was accused of taking part in four murders and over a dozen attempted murders in North Miami-Dade, a spate of violence that alarmed city leaders and led to the creation of a police task force.

    Five suspected members of the gang were indicted on murder charges in 2007. The Terrorist Boyz gang case has the notoriety of being the most expensive death-penalty trial in recent Florida history.

    Those indicted were Jean-Marie, Cadet, Max Daniel, Robert St. Germain and the suspected ringleader, Johnny Charles, also known as the “Angel of Death.” St. Germain pleaded guilty three years ago and agreed to a 12-year prison sentence. Daniel and Charles are awaiting trial.

    Last year, after seven weeks of testimony, another jury convicted Frantzy Jean-Marie, 36, of committing two murders and four attempted murders, as well as conspiracy and racketeering. The same jury declined to mete out the death penalty, and Jean-Marie is now serving life in prison.

    In Cadet’s trial, prosecutors presented testimony from police detectives, eyewitnesses and former gang members who agreed to testify. Cadet’s defense lawyer, Scott Sakin, said the state was relying on scant evidence and the word of “snitches” and “rats.”

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...234011957.html
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