Over the weekend three motorcycles were stolen in Belize City, two of them for food delivery couriers.
The most recent happened last night. Around 10:30, Trevor Marshall, a delivery man of Chon Saan Palace was sent out to Tibruce Street to deliver three plates of food but instead of collecting $56.50, he was held up by two armed gunmen. His supervisor told us more:
Lisa Baizar, Supervisor - Drivers & Motorcyles (Chon Saan Palace)
"Well according to the young boy he said that they hold him at gun point. One was by a shop sitting on a bike and he ask them if they had ordered the food. Someone said yes but by that time another came from behind and hold him at gun point. One of them told him that they wanted everything including the bike. He got off the bike and they told him to run or else they will kill him. So he said that he ran down Marigold Lane."
Andrea Polanco
"So you believe it was actually these robbers who called and ordered the food?"
Lisa Baizar, Supervisor - Drivers & Motorcyles (Chon Saan Palace)
"Yup, they did it more than one time. It is not the first time. But sometime when they order we don't send the food because we know it's not a normal person that would order the food, we know that it is somebody that is up to something so we don't send it."
Andrea Polanco
"So, so far there is no word on recovering the bike?"
Lisa Baizar, Supervisor - Drivers & Motorcyles (Chon Saan Palace)
"No, no word on recovering the bike. This is the second that they took away from us like that for this year in less than 6 months."
The robbers also took away Marshall's cell phone, personal documents and twenty dollars cash.
The other two motorcycles were stolen on Sunday. In the first incident, Businessman Wayne Swayze reported to police that between one and seven-forty in the morning his motorcycle, which was parked in his yard, was stolen.
In the other incident, Pablo Coc, a delivery man for Pepper's Pizza told police that around 8:10 that night he was out delivering pizza and when he couldn't find the address for the delivery to be made, he called the number for the person who ordered the pizza. Coc reported that man told him to meet him on the corner of Trinity Street and Central American Boulevard but upon arriving at the location the man told him that they needed to go to a lane off Trinity Street so that he can be paid. When they got to the location, Coc told police that the man got off his bicycle, pointed a gun at him, demanded that he get off the motorcycle and hand over what he had. Coc, fearing for his life, got off the cycle and handed over $26.25.
Shortly after, two men pulled up, jumped on his motorcycle and rode off.
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