MIAMI (Reuter) U.S. authorities are bringing the feared former police chief of PortauPrince, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Michel Francois, to Miami to stand trial on charges he ran a vast drugs smuggling network in league with Colombian cartels, law enforcement officials said Friday. An indictment unveiled by the U.S. Attorney's Office said Francois placed the political and military hierarchy of Haiti's former military government under his control to ship thousands of kilos of cocaine and heroin to the United States. He was arrested in Honduras and was likely to arrive in Miami under escort Saturday, law enforcement sources said. Francois is believed to have been the mastermind behind the September 1991 coup that toppled Haitian President JeanBertrand Aristide. He fled to the Dominican Republic in 1994 after U.S. troops invaded the Caribbean nation to restore Aristide to power. He became the capital's police chief after the 1991 coup and developed a network of plainclothes policemen, or ``attaches'', who instigated a reign of terror against opponents of the military regime. The 13count indictment said: ``As one of the de facto leaders of the Republic of Haiti Jospeh Michel Francois placed the political and military structure under his control.'' ``It was the purpose and object of the conspiracy to establish a cocaine and heroin transportation and distribution network through the Republic of Haiti employing in large part the political and military institutions of that country.'' The network operated from June 1987 to about September last year. The indictment said it moved 33 tonnes of drugs in to the United States and Francois recived millions of dollars in payments from the cartels for his role. Among the drug barons he plotted with was Pablo Escobar, the late head of the Medellin cartel who was gunned down by Colombian security forces in December 1993. According to the indictment, Francois had an airstrip built on the property of Haitian Colonel Jean Claude Paul for use by planes landing from Colombia laden with cocaine. He also appointed Marc Valme as chief of the PortauPrince international airport to facilitate the smuggling. Other shipments went through ports also run by Francois cronies. Valme was one of 13 people listed on the indictment, 10 of whom are already in custody in Miami. Another is Evens Gourgue, a security worker at Miami International Airport. He is accused of helping drugs couriers get through customs at the airport. Charges against the various defendants also include money laundering and distributing narcotics in the United States. One of those indicted, Fritz Lafontante, made a brief appearance in a Miami district court on Friday. He was ordered held without bond. Gourgue was due to appear but U.S. marshalls kept him out of the courtroom after he claimed he was suffering from tuberculosis. He remained in custody. In PortauPrince, Haitian justice officials said they would seek Francois' return to face charges of murder and other human rights abuses. ``We will seek his extradition,'' said Justice Ministry advisor Jerome Jean Noel. ``This is a person that Haitian justice has been looking for for quite some time.'' Francois is alleged to have had close links with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and he trained at U.S. military installations in Georgia and Texas in the 1980s.