US Detains 4 in Haitian President Assassination

U.S. authorities have arrested four more people in the slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

Miami (AP) — U.S. authorities have arrested four more people in the slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, including the owner of a Miami-area security company that hired ex-Colombian soldiers for the mission, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

FILE – Then Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise, center, leaves the museum during a ceremony marking the 215th anniversary of revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture’s death, at the National Pantheon museum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on April 7, 2018. Haitian President Moise is assassinated on July 7, 2021, by gunmen who also wound his wife Martine in an overnight raid on their Port-au-Prince home.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)

Antonio “Tony” Intriago, owner of CTU Security, is charged with conspiracy to kill or kidnap a person outside the U.S. among other charges, along with company representative Arcangel Pretel Ortiz.

Florida-based U.S. financier Walter Veintemilla is accused of funding the operation. A fourth suspect, Frederick Joseph Bergmann Jr., is accused of smuggling goods.