Haitian pastor arrested for role in assassination
The head of Haiti’s national police announced on July 11 that officers arrested a Haitian man accused of flying into the country on a private jet and working with the alleged assassins and masterminds behind the killing of President Jovenel Moïse.
Police Chief Léon Charles identified the suspect as 62-year-old Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Haitian physician, pastor, and Florida businessman who has denounced the country’s leaders as corrupt.
Charles said the alleged killers were protecting Sanon and that he intended to take over as president of Haiti, adding that officers found several items at his house, including a hat emblazoned with the logo of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, gun parts, 20 boxes of bullets, four automobile license plates from the Dominican Republic, two cars, and correspondence with unidentified people.
