Arrested on Friday, May 13, 2022 at the 5th Avenue Bolosse, in the capital, the Dominican Molaï Ortiz Mieses is currently kept in custody at the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police, where he answers questions from investigators of the DCPJ. Molaï Ortiz Mieses (32 years old) is presented as a powerful gang leader operating in Haiti and is affiliated with the gang groups of Ti Lapli and Ti Makak, according to the Haitian National Police, quoting the alleged bandit.
He was apprehended for his alleged involvement in acts of kidnapping and criminal conspiracy”, the PNH said, before reporting that ”his revelations and confessions are shocking and shattering”.
Molaï Ortiz Mieses admitted having participated in the assassination of Divisional Inspector Dan Jerry Toussaint, on January 1, 2022, in Laboule 12, zone of Fessard: “José Lito, of Dominican nationality, Venel alias Ti Blan, Tossou, Francilié, Dieu-Pifort, Hubert, are some of my acolytes who participated in this crime”, he confessed before adding that he has committed an incalculable number of kidnappings
Molaï Ortiz Mieses worked for the gang of “Ti Makak” according to the PNH. He was also a right-hand man of Ti Lapli.
The alleged perpetrator has already served time in prison in the Dominican Republic, after being apprehended for several offenses.
He decided to settle in Haiti 10 years ago, and then joined the gang of Carlos Petit-Homme, alias “Ti Makak”, based in Laboule, a neighborhood of Pétion-Ville.
They are legions of Dominicans who are an integral part of the armed gangs currently operating in Haiti,” said Molaï Ortiz Mieses, arguing that each gang group operating in Haiti has Dominican nationals in its ranks, taking the example of the gang of Village de Dieu of the famous “Izo”.
Molaï Ortiz Mieses, nicknamed ”Nèg atè a”, for his ability to maneuver various types of vehicles, is suspected of having participated in the kidnapping of several of his fellow Dominicans in Haiti.
At the beginning of May, Dominican diplomat Carlos Guillen Tatis was kidnapped before being released four (4) days later. The group of 400 mawozo operating around Croix-des-Bouquets was suspected of having carried out the coup.
On February 21, 2021, two Dominican brothers, Michael Enrique and Antonio Gérer Campusano Feliz, film technicians and their Haitian translator, Junior Albert Augusma, were kidnapped in Martissant, and were released after six (6) days of detention.
At the time, the Haitian government was accused by the Dominican press of blackmailing in this case. It would have demanded the extradition of the former mayor of Port-au-Prince, Ralph Youri Chevry, in exchange for the release of the two Dominican technicians according to an editorial in the Dominican publication, Listin Diario. In his editorial, Miguel Franjul had called for the closure of the border until, he wrote, this “policy of blackmail and extortion on the part of Haiti” ceases and had demanded the unconditional release of the Dominican technicians.
The editorialist had stressed that the kidnapping of the two Dominicans in Haiti was the result of the deep political crisis, social and insecurity that the country is going through, which represents a great concern for the other part of the island Hispaniola.
