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Team Effort To Find Guardado Killer
posted (May 17, 2018)

Moving now to the city, Police investigators had to work double duty to find the man who allegedly killed Daniel Guardado.  As we told you, police arrested and charged 21 year-old Benjamin Alexander Reid, a Banak Street Resident, for the murder of 43 year-old Guardado, the mechanic who was shot and killed on Partridge Street Extension. 

He’s on remand at the Belize Central Prison because the cops think he was the shooter who senselessly gunned down Guardado, a working man. 

Today, at the bi-weekly police press conference, the police spokesperson thanked the investigators for effort in aggressively pursuing all tips which led to this arrests:

ASP Alejandro Cowo, OC - CIB Belize City
"Police arrested and charged Benjamin Alexander Reid for the crime of murder, this is in reference to the shooting death of Daniel Guardado which occurred on the 5th of May 2018."

Daniel Ortiz
"Are you able to say how police cracked the case?"

ASP Alejandro Cowo
"Well police has a duty to investigate all matters to the best of their abilities and I would like to thank the investigators who put a great amount of energy into this investigation. We spoke to a number of people that have contributed to this investigation and we were successful in doing an arrest into that murder of Mr. Guardado."

Daniel Ortiz
"Were you able to find out why this gentleman was killed sir? From all appearances at least to us in the press this was a working man who had no ties to anything in the underworld."

ASP Alejandro Cowo
"Yes, investigation has shown us that he was not the target and that he had been a person that was mistaken. We understand that the actual target was somebody else in that neighborhood and not him.”

Reid’s case is adjourned until August 16.

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