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Esso Tiger Mart on Freetown Road in Belize City – it’s one of the most heavily trafficked and well – lit gas stations, but all that didn’t matter last night to four brazen gunmen who held up three employees. Thirty four year old John Diaz was the first gas attendant to get robbed. Diaz was working when he was approached by a Creole man of medium height wearing a white t–shirt and a dark pants. The man, who was holding a gun in his pants pocket, demanded money and Diaz fearing for his life handed over a total of two hundred and forty three dollars.

There was nothing that Diaz’s co workers could do to help because at the same time they too were being robbed of cash. The other gas attendant to be held up was twenty nine year old Dwight Jackson. Jackson had a black gun placed to his left side. The assailant identified as a slim built Creole man wore a red peak cap, black undershirt and pants. He stole a total of four hundred and fifty dollars from Jackson.

The other victim to be held up was nineteen year old Anthony Broaster who was approached not by one but two men. One of the men described as wearing a white undershirt grabbed Broaster’s gold chain with a chrome thirty eight revolver medal from around his neck while the robber’s accomplice searched Broaster’s pocket and took seven hundred dollars in cash.

Although we understand the entire hold-up and robbery was captured by security cameras Belize City police have yet to make an arrest. The total amount stolen was two thousand five hundred and ninety three dollars.