‘The man was circulating among us every day’: How cops nabbed Haiti assassination suspect
Joseph Félix Badio, accused in the assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moïse, was arrested Oct. 19, 2023, by the Haitian National Police at a supermarket in Petionville. - Haitian National Police/TNS/TNS

Ernst Dorfeuille, a Haitian police officer dressed in plain clothes, was walking out of Big Star Market in the hills of Port-au-Prince on Oct. 19 when he took a quick glance at the man walking in and realized who he was: Joseph Félix Badio, the former government functionary and a key suspect wanted in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. It was the second time that Dorfeuille had run into the fugitive, by this time sporting a gray beard and salt and pepper hair, inside a Pétionville market. But unlike their previous run-in at the now-closed Giant Supermarket further down the road, thi...