A former Camp Lejeune Marine, who had ambitions of training a foreign army and becoming president, was sentenced to prison on Tuesday for illegally smuggling guns out of the country.
Jacques Yves Sebastien Duroseau, 34, is sentenced to 63 months (5+ years) in prison after he was convicted on Dec. 12 for conspiracy to illegally export and smuggle firearms and controlled equipment from the United States to Haiti, along with transporting firearms without a license to the Haitian Army.
Duroseau was born in Haiti and is a naturalized citizen of the U.S., according to a news release from U.S. Dept. of Justice.
Former Marine sergeant smuggled guns to Haiti in plot to train army and become president (Getty Images) A former Marine sergeant who traveled to his homeland of Haiti with firearms and a colonel’s rank to train the Haitian Army and become the nation’s president was found guilty of illegal firearms smuggling by a federal jury. Starting in April 2019, Marine Sgt. Jacques Yves Sebastien Duroseau, 34, began making plans to return to Haiti, contacting a person in the country not identified in court documents about his plan. The firearms instructor got a friend, identified only as “TH,” and a sergeant in the Marine Corps’ Individual Ready Reserve to doctor paperwork claiming he was a Marine colonel on orders to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. TH also purchased Duroseau an American Airlines airplane ticket from Coastal Carolina Regional Airport in New Bern, North Carolina, near Camp Lejeune, for Nov. 11, 2019, to Haiti.