The Friends for Conservation and Development are reporting that they helped the police and the BDF capture a Guatemalan man who was about to start up a marijuana plantation in the Chiquibul forest.
At around 1:30 p.m. yesterday, a joint patrol consisting of a of FCD ranger, members of the Belize Defence Force were on duty in the Caballo area of the Chiquibul. That's when they came across a man later identified as 25 year-old Manuel De Jesus Hernandez Vega, a resident of the Guatemalan Village La Esperanza, in Melchor De Menchos.
The lawmen caught him with 3 live cartridges belonging to a 12-gauge shot gun, and at his camp, they found 5 small plastic bags, which contained marijuana seeds. Each of the bags weighed about a half a pound. A police press release says that the plastic bags had a total weight of just over a kilo of marijuana seeds.
When he was questioned, he told the Belizean officers that he was on his way to a field he found in the Caballo area, where he was going to plant these marijuana seeds.
The officers escorted him out of the Chiquibul to the San Ignacio Police Station, where he was handed over to be criminally charged. He's currently in police detention.
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