United States authorities arrested a Colombian man for his alleged role in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, who was killed in his home in July.  

The U.S. extradited the suspect, Mario Palacios, to Panama on Tuesday.  

Palacios fled Haiti after the assassination, and how he did so is unknown. U.S. officials later captured him for trying to enter Jamaica illegally.   

According to a U.S. Department of Justice statement, Palacios was deported from Jamaica back to Haiti when he was picked up during a layover in Panama. He was extradited to Miami.  

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“The three countries (Panama, Colombia, and United States) were in constant contact coordinating this deportation and the last extradition to the United States yesterday,” said the director-general of the National Police of Colombia, Gen. Jorge Luis Vargas Valencia.  

According to the DOJ statement, Palacios made his first court appearance on Tuesday in the Southern District of Florida.  

Palacios, 43, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the U.S. The DOJ statement adds, “and providing material support resulting in death, knowing or intending that such material support would be used to prepare for or carry out the conspiracy to kill or kidnap.”  

Moïse was assassinated in his Port-au-Prince home on July 7. Before his death, the then-Haitian president had worked on a list of business people and politicians who took part in the country’s drug trade. The New York Times reported that he had the goal to turn in the dossier to the American government.  

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His wife, Martine Moïse, was shot during the break-in. She reportedly pretended to be dead while they searched the room and dug through his files. She heard them saying, “That’s it” and they left the residence.   

“When they left, they thought I was dead,” she said to The New York Times in her first interview since her husband’s death.