One of the major routes for high grade marijuana to be trafficked into Belize is through the north, form Mexico.
And today, customs busted a cabbie packing 12 pounds of cannabis.
At around 6:20 a.m. 53 year-old Theodore Augustine, a taxi driver from Belize City, was crossing over the border in Santa Elena, when a customs officer searched his gray Dodge Caravan. That officer found 5 parcels of suspected marijuana, weighing 12 and a half pounds
Theodore Augustine is currently detained pending charges of drug trafficking.