PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) A Haitian newspaper says that a businessman who was arrested on a drug charge has been released.
The daily Le Nouvelliste reports that a judge freed Evinx Daniel from jail in southern Haiti. The newspaper says Daniel was let go after being held overnight because the government commissioner who ordered the arrest acted "hasty," according to a senior government official.
Daniel owns Dan's Creek, an oceanfront hotel in the southwestern town of Port Salut.
He was taken into custody Thursday after eight foreigners were arrested in the country's south and charged with drug trafficking.
Because of its location and its largely unpatrolled coastline, Haiti has long been a transit point for cocaine from South America and marijuana from Jamaica for transshipment to North America, Europe and elsewhere in the Caribbean.
