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Young City Resident Found Dead In Corozal
posted (May 23, 2018)

Last night, Belize City resident Jose Zelaya Jr was reported missing in Corozal, and tonight his family has confirmed that he was found dead in a cane field near Calcutta Village this evening. He is believed to have been murdered.  

Zelaya was from Belize City - but his father lives in Corozal.  He was expecting to see his son on Sunday - but he says the young man was kidnapped before he could get to him:

Jose Zelaya Sr. - Son Found Dead
"Information right now that I the received is all pointing to them kidnap my son Sunday at Corozal here. I could live with the fact that my son missing three days now. If he dead then I want to find the body so I can bury my son and from Sunday night he gone missing. The police have one person of interest already but this person no the come clean with the story, this person they come with all kind of bogus story."

That interview was done this morning and 8 hours later - Jose Zelaya Jr was found dead.  

Before he knew for sure that his sone was dead, his father told CTV-3 that he knows Jr.  was in trouble:…

Jose Zelaya Sr.
"My son isn't no angel but he personally have no problem and no beef with nobody in Corozal because they no do things at Corozal but my son has a little past yeah but not like to kill nobody or nothing. My son was a drug trafficker, my son got busted with guns and a few defect of character just like anybody else's kids but at the end of day it's my son that. For the last 8 years I was their mom, he come to Corozal because he told me he tired of being in Belize. He has to the running from police, he has to running from bad man, he's not into that anymore. So he come to Calcutta to change his life and relax but apparently look like my next son have problem with somebody in Corozal and what I am understanding my son's disappearance has to do with something that my next son did at Corozal."

Police have not said if a suspect is still detained.

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