Hti: Therassan a stool pigeon

The former security chief for deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been identified in court as a U.S. government informant in its investigation of alleged drug trafficking by members of Aristide's administration.

No evidence has been presented in open court linking Aristide -- now in Jamaica making arrangements to go to South Africa -- to a suspected narcotics conspiracy in the widening federal probe of high-ranking officials in his toppled government.

But an attorney said in court that former Aristide security chief Oriel Jean -- extradited in early March from Canada on a drug-smuggling conspiracy charge -- was cooperating with the federal government.