Ex-DEA informant receives life sentence for role in killing Haitian president

(Reuters) - Joseph Vincent, a former informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), was handed a life sentence by a U.S. court on Friday for his role in the 2021 assassination of Haiti's president.

A Haitian-American national, Vincent is set to be held in a Florida prison, the court ruled.

(Reporting by Kylie Madry; Editing by Brendan O'Boyle)