A former Haitian lawmaker who is a suspect in the assassination of the country’s president has been arrested in Jamaica, Jamaican authorities said Saturday.
Ex-senator Jean Joel Joseph, wanted in the July 7, 2021, killing of president Jovenel Moise, was arrested Friday evening, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said in a statement.
The JCF “can confirm that a Haitian national; Jean Joel Joseph and three other members (of) his family were arrested in Jamaica on immigration-related charges,” the statement said.
Jamaican investigators contacted Haitian authorities who said Joseph was “wanted in Haiti as a suspect in the alleged assassination of the Haitian President in 2021,” it added.
Joseph was arrested at a house in St. Elizabeth, a parish in the southwest of the island.
A Jamaican police source told AFP that Joseph is “being detained at the moment.”
The source said Jamaican police acted in conjunction with “international law enforcement partners” and that “joint investigations” had been underway.
