What might have seemed like a mother and her kids out on an innocent BPMS package pick up was really a drug run. Police - who had advance intelligence - caught a woman with 4 pounds of weed in a package right as she walked out of the courier service BPMS next door to us on Dean street. That happened on Friday evening at about 5:30. Police gave us more details.
ASP Alejandro Cowo - OC, CIB
"Just after 5 pm, acting upon information received, police observed a female exiting the BPMS office located on Dean Street. At the time she was in the possession of a black bag on her hand. Police intercepted her and conducted a search on the bag which led to the discovery of three parcels containing suspected cannabis. This female was identified as Billie Jane Pitts, a 45 year school warden of a Belize City address. The drugs were weighed in her presence and it amounted to 1,950 grams. She was then arrested and charged for the offence of drug trafficking. The drugs came from the Corozal district."
Reporter
"How do you mitigate something like this, sir? Given the fact that persons are using these currier services to transport drugs?"
ASP Alejandro Cowo
"Well, it is something that we have been monitoring for a very good while. If you notice there have also been several persons arrested and charged for drug trafficking likewise in San Pedro via the two airlines that flies to San Pedro and Caye Caulker."
As you heard Billy Jean was charged with drug trafficking. She is a school warden not known to police. She was carrying a baby with her when police made the bust.
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