On Friday we told you about the domestic drama that almost turned into deadly
gunplay at the Belize Zoo. Brian Saunders went to his wife’s workplace
at the zoo with his licensed firearm, pulled the gun and threatened to kill
her, and it all happened inside the zoo’s administrative office.
28 year old Claudia Saunders is the zoo’s manager and she told police
that he stormed into her office, pointed a 9 mm pistol in her face, cranked
it, and put it to her head. He then grabbed her in her hair and dragged her
to his vehicle. He drove to the nearby Mahogany Heights, beat her, and that’s
when police came, took away his weapon and arrested him.
With all that, he was assessed with 5 criminal charges, but four of them were
dropped today when his wife Claudia Saunders asked the court to drop the charges.
A single count of discharging a firearm in public remained and he pleaded not
guilty to it. Saunders escaped going to jail since the charge of discharging
a firearm does not fall under the new gun laws. There was no objection to bail
so he was offered and met bail of $500.
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