MIAMI — The United States has charged a retired Colombian commando with taking part in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti — the first suspect to face U.S. prosecution in the crime.

Mario Palacios was detained at an airport in Panama on Monday and flown from there to Miami, after previously agreeing to cooperate with U.S. law enforcement, according to federal prosecutors. He appeared before a federal judge on Tuesday and was charged with conspiring to kidnap or kill outside the United States. He was held without bond.

New Details Emerge in Killing of Former Haitian President Jovenel Moïse

A New York Times report on Sunday uncovered new details about the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. According to former senior advisors to the president, Moïse compiled a list of political elites and leading businesspeople with ties to organized crime and intended to share the list with U.S. law enforcement officials, putting many of his former political allies in legal jeopardy. Several suspects in the assassination admitted to searching the president’s bedroom for the list of names, implying that the plot involved many of those implicated in Moïse’s anti-corruption campaign.

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Mr. Moïse was gunned down on July 7 in his bedroom by assassins who spoke Spanish, according to his wife, Martine Moïse, who was injured in the attack. However, the exact identity of the killers, the details of Mr. Moïse’s death and the ultimate mastermind of the plot remain unknown, although it appears to have been partly planned in the United States.