Haitian federal law enforcements arrested a Florida-based Haitian-American doctor, accusing him of being one of the plotters behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse last week, the New York Times reports.
Sixty-three year old Christian Emmanuel Sanon is the third American to be implicated in the assassination plan, which killed Moïse and seriously injured his wife in an early morning attack on the presidential residence July 7th.
“He arrived by private plane in June with political objectives and contacted a private security firm to recruit the people who committed this act,” Haitian national police chief, Léon Charles, said. The firm, he said, was a Venezuelan security company based in the United States called CTU.
As evidence, Charles said that Emmanuel Sanon was the person one of the Colombians contacted after being arrested. During a raid of his home, the authorities said, the police found a D.E.A. cap, a box of cartridges, two vehicles, six pistol holsters, about 20 boxes of bullets, 24 unused shooting targets, and four license plates from the Dominican Republic.