Jose Espat has also been assisting another family to try to find their missing loved one. He’s Jahmaal Humes, and he’s been missing since December 20. His family has been frantically searching for him, and today, his worried mother came forward to complain that from her perspective, police are not doing enough.
Here’s how she explained it this evening:
Sharlene Nicholas - Mother of Jahmaal Humes
"My son Jahmaal Humes has been missing from since the 20th day of December, and so far, all we have experienced with the police is frustration, heartaches, and a whole lot of turn around from the police force. Now, I'm not here to bash anybody, as Mr. Espat says, or to discriminate, or find fault. But, I believe that the police is not doing a proper investigation, and working as much as they could, in order to find my son. On the 20th day, we started doing searches for my son. On one of the searches, we had - a guy came out there with my son's tennis, stating that - after the police picked him up, he stated that he bought the tennis from my son on the 7th of December, which is impossible. Me and my daughter, I saw my son the 18th in that tennis, and my daughter saw him the same day he went missing in that said tennis. I kept calling and asking them what they were doing pertaining, if they did any DNA, anything to see if maybe, they find blood or whatever on that tennis. They stated that they could only - didn't answer my question - stated they could only hold the guy for 48 hours, and then let him go. The guy was eventually let go. I don't even know to this day if he was ever picked up and questioned once again. However, we kept doing our searches, and each time I called, they couldn't give me a straight forward answer on what is being done. We get tips after tips. Every tip or information we got, we passed on to the police, and I know that some of them have not been followed up. Over the weekend, we get several different tips, and we came up with some very sensational tips, where we went all the way out to Corozal to follow that lead. We started from all the way down in Orange Walk. And it's kind of frustrating on my family. I have not been eating guys. I have not been sleep. I need answers about my son, and I know the police and BTL, a 100% could do much more because this is someone's life."
As you heard, the family mentioned BTL because they want to get access to phone records from his cellular phone to determine if he was threatened or if he was in any kind of trouble. As far as we know, such records can only be lawfully obtained with a request from the DPP.
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