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Nat’l Team Chairman At FDC Houston
posted (July 11, 2013)
And another man who continues to make the news for being caught up with US authorities is Rawell Pelayo.

As we told you, he's being held at detention center, and this has been the case since he arrived in the US.

Well, today an anonymous source provided the media with actual confirmation of where he's being held. That confirmation came to the Belizean press by way of a webpage link to the USA's Federal Bureau of Prisons Database.

A search of the inmate database reveals that he is listed as being housed at the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in Houston, Texas. Quoting directly from the FBOP's website, it says, "The Federal Detention Center (FDC)… is an administrative facility housing male and female pretrial and holdover inmates." End Quote.

This development has come as a shock to many in the football community who know Pelayo very well as the avid football fan, and the owner of the formerly active football club, Juventus. He has been a major influence on football in the north, and when the Bertie Chimilio administration was finally toppled from office within the Football Federation of Belize, he was elected as Vice President, the third most senior in of the executive, outranked only by Senior Vice President Sergio Chuc, and President Ruperto Vicente.

He has been serving as the Chairman of the National Team Committee, and he was to accompany the team as they make their trips to the different states competing in the first round of the Gold Cup.

And as you may have noticed, the FBOP's website lists his release date as unknown, and that's the position that those closest to him have been forced to take. No one knows when he will be released and allowed to return home.

As we reported, when he arrived in Houston, he was escorted into detention by officers of the USA's Drug Enforcement Agency.

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