Jovenel Moise assassination

Colombian president Abelardo de la Espriella has offered legal assistance to a group of Colombian military veterans who were arrested over the 2021 killing of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse. The 17 Colombians were recently extradited to Florida, after being held for five years without being sentenced in Haiti.

Five years after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, dozens of people arrested in connection with the killing in the troubled Caribbean nation are still awaiting trial in Miami.

A Florida jury has convicted four men of conspiracy in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Prosecutors said South Florida served as a central location for planning and financing the plot to oust Moïse and replace him with someone else.

A judge in Haiti probing the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse indicted his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the ex-chief of Haiti's National Police, Léon Charles.

The one-page warrant contains little detail except to say that authorities are seeking to interview Martine Moïse about the case. It does not state nor suggest any involvement.

A former confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has pleaded guilty to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, whose killing in 2021 caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation.

John Joel Joseph made his appearance at a Miami federal court and changed his plea after reaching an agreement with the government.

Rodolphe Jaar is one of 11 people arrested and charged in the U.S. for the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, and the only one to plead guilty and to be sentenced.

Convicted drug trafficker Rodolphe Jaar, 50, has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court in Miami to participating in the assassination of Haiti's president in 2021. Prosecutors believe most of the planning and funding occurred in South Florida.

On this episode of The South Florida Roundup, we looked into the four arrests that were made in South Florida in connection to the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 (01:03), the unsafe structure violations that the Caribbean Marketplace at the Little Haiti Cultural Center received (18:37), and Palm Beach County’s upcoming municipal elections (39:11).

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 former soldiers from Colombia for the mission.

The three Haitian-Americans and a Colombian arrested in Haitian President Jovenel Moīse's 2021 murder bring the number of figures now in U.S. custody to seven.