Haiti - PNH : A police officer and his partner arrested for ammunition trafficking
Friday, November 8, 2024 at the Champ de Mars, police officer Ernst Jacques, Agent 3, assigned to the Temporary Anti-gang Unit (UTAG), has been arrested by a patrol of the Departmental Law Enforcement Unit (UDMO/DDO-1) while he was driving his private vehicle.
When he was arrested, he was in possession of 2,400 rounds of ammunition, including 1,400 of 7.62 caliber and 1,000 of 5.56 caliber, as well as his service weapon, a Glock 17, a magazine containing seventeen cartridges, an American assault rifle from PTR industrie, four magazines, one of which contained 20 7.62 cartridges, and 2 mobile phones.
At the same time, Mrs. Gloria Pierre, the partner of police officer Ernst Jacques, who is part of the administrative staff assigned to the Armament Department of the Logistics Directorate of the National Police of Haiti (PNH), was arrested by the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ) for trafficking in ammunition. According to preliminary information provided by Ernst Jacques, these ammunitions came from the PNH stock and he obtained them with the complicity of his partner.
