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Belmopan Taxi-Man Found Dead, Police Say Homicide
posted (July 17, 2013)
Tonight, Belmopan police are working on a homicide case after a missing taxi-man's body was found this afternoon on the outskirts of the capital. 45 year old Jose Marin Umana was last seen by his wife on Saturday morning when he left her store on Nicaragua Street in Belmopan. He left with a man in his car, but never came back home. She reported him missing on Saturday the 15th July and this afternoon at 4:30 police found his body in an area between George Price Boulevard and the Western Highway. The body was found in his taxi and was in an advanced state of decomposition. A post mortem will have to be conduced on site, but so far police believe he may have suffered an injury to the head. We'll have more on this tomorrow.

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