12/02/2024

Former DEA Informant Joseph Vincent Sentenced to Life for Role in Haiti President Moise's Assassination

By CMC

A former informant for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Joseph Vincent, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for his role in the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise.Vincent, a Haitian-American national, admitted to helping plot to kill Moïse in his home in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, including advice about the political landscape and meetings with key community leaders.

Vincent is among 11 defendants in the case, which includes Colombian ex-soldiers and businessmen accused of helping supply funds and weapons and carrying out the night-time attack.

Another defendant, Frederick Joseph Bergmann Jr, also pleaded guilty to a role in Moïse’s assassination on Friday. His sentencing was tentatively set for April 18.Residents reported hearing gunshots and seeing men dressed in black running through the neighbourhood.

Rodolphe Jaar, a Haitian Chilean businessman, was considered the mastermind of the assassination and was sentenced to life imprisonment by a federal court judge in Florida last summer.

On Friday the court ruled that Vincent will be held in a Florida prison.

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