Haitian police have taken the assassinated president's security chief into custody

• Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at his private residence earlier this month.
• Police have now taken his security chief into custody.
• Authorities have blamed what they described as a group of assassins including 26 Colombians.

Police in Haiti have taken the security chief of the country's assassinated president into custody, multiple reports say.

Dimitri Hérard, the security chief for Haiti's presidential palace, was taken into custody on Thursday, a police spokeswoman confirmed, according to The New York Times.

Hérard was told the decision to hold him "came from above," CNN reported, citing one of his associates.

President Jovenel Moïse was killed at his private residence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, last Wednesday.

It is not clear if Hérard had any involvement in the security of the private residence.

Hérard was questioned at the Haitian Inspector General's office on Wednesday and then transferred to a police station in Port-au-Prince, CNN reported, citing the associate.

The head of Haiti's presidential guard and two other top bodyguards were also questioned, The Times reported.

Haitian police previously pointed to what it said was a group of assassins that includes 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans.

Eighteen of those Colombians were detained, three were killed by the police, and five were still on the run, police said, according to Reuters.

Police said they were investigating if Herard, who was recently in Colombia, met with any Colombian nationals that are accused of being involved in the assassination, CNN reported.