Arrested men told Haitian police “they were on a mission, and they didn’t have to speak to [the police]… They said they were on a government mission” | “US officials deny any active covert operation on the ground in Haiti.” [1]

Cache of weapons seized in central Port-au-Prince, Haiti on February 17, 2019.
The Haitian National Police has charged five Americans who claimed to be on “a government mission” on charges of possession of illegal arms and other crimes after they were found with several assault rifles and weapons, bulletproof vests, drones, passports, satellite phones and license plates. The group of men were detained Sunday evening in central Port-au-Prince according to reports in Haitian Times and the twitter feed of journalist and film-maker Kevin Pina of @HaitiInfoProj.
In all, eight individuals, including a Russian, Serbian (a permanent US resident) and Haitian national, were arrested in Port-au-Prince, Joel Casseus, the head of the Port-au-Prince police station, told the Miami Herald in an interview confirming the arrest at a police checkpoint.
Here are pics of weapons and gear found in their possession:




Haiti Information Project reports that the Haitian national arrested by the police was identified as Michael Estera. Estera reportedly works for Gesner Champagne, who is a close friend of the ruling party PHTK founder Martelly and his company Preble-Rish, receiving several large contracts to clean sewage canals in Haiti’s capital. The PHTK is a U.S. puppet organization.
The US Marine Corps Major

Here’s the background from the Kroeker Partners website on one of the Americans arrested, identified by his US passport.
Kent Kroeker is the son of Mark Kroeker, founder and senior partner of Kroeker Partners, a well-connected US international security operation based in Orange County, California. In May 2016 he participated in a review of the UN Police. [2]
Interestingly its website – which contains no address for the company – is flashing the message, “Note: Kroeker Partners LLC has no active engagements underway in Haiti and is not in a position to offer comments on recent developments in the country.” [1]
From the frying pan into the fire: “Their boss would call our boss”
The men, he said, didn’t specify which government had hired them. But at one point, they told officers that “their boss would call our boss,” he said. Soon a third vehicle arrived with another individual, this one speaking French. He too was arrested.
“We used professional force to show them that we are serious,” Casseus said. “We then took them to the police station.”
Two sources have told the Herald that following the arrest, several individuals connected with the Moise administration have tried to get the men released. One even claimed that the men were there to do a security operation for the central bank. A check with the bank’s governor by police, however, revealed he was unaware of their presence.
“They have refused to speak,” Casseus said of the men. “They’ve said they don’t have to speak.”
Casseus, 46, said he doesn’t know how long the men were in town, and added their passports did not show any entry stamp for Haiti. However, their visas show they had visited several other countries prior to arriving in Haiti.
A 24-year veteran of the police force, Casseus said the arrests represent “a moment of pride because you’re seeing that your orders are being carried out when you pass them. You feel a lot of pride and it’s encouraging.”
The United States with Canada has led the charge for increased intervention in Venezuela. It has threatened various OAS members like Haiti, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic, members of CARICOM, with diplomatic and financial action if they voted in favour of non-interference and respect for Venezuela’s sovereignty. The Haitian government capitulated to the US dictate and voted against Venezuela at an OAS meeting last month, arousing the fury of Haitians still further.
UPDATE FEBRUARY 21, 2019
Notes
1. “Plausible deniability is the ability of people (typically senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command) to deny knowledge of or responsibility for any damnable actions committed by others in an organizational hierarchy because of a lack of evidence that can confirm their participation, even if they were personally involved in or at least willfully ignorant of the actions… Although plausible deniability has existed throughout history, that name for it was coined by the CIA in the early 1960s to describe the withholding of information from senior officials in order to protect them from repercussions in the event that illegal or unpopular activities by the CIA became public knowledge” – Wikipedia
2. The Linked-in profile of Kroeker senior states: “Following 32 years in the Los Angeles Police Department where he rose to the rank of Deputy Chief of Police, he served as Deputy Police Commissioner of the UN’s Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH). He later became Portland Oregon’s Police Chief where he served for almost 4 years. In 2003, he was appointed the first Police Commissioner for the UN Mission in Liberia, (UNMIL), and later was appointed Police Advisor and Director of the Police Division in the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) in New York.”
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