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Last night, we told you about the good police work which led several specialized police units to make a major marijuana and money bust at a northside stash house yesterday. 

Acting on Special Branch intelligence, a joint law enforcement team of GSU and BDF visited a house near Driftwood Bay, at mile 4 on the Philip Goldson Highway. Within this residential community, the cops found a house, which was being used to conceal large quantities of high-grade marijuana, known as Mexican Kush.

Aided by the K-9 unit which found the hidden compartment under a van, the joint patrol team searched the premises and found over 58 pounds of this high-grade marijuana, and over 12 thousand dollars in cash. 

At today's police press conference, the Commander of Operations, Assistant Police Commissioner Marco Vidal, shared a few details about the find:

ACP Marco Vidal - Commander, Operations
"An operation was done yesterday as part of a joint operation that is being conducted in Belize City since the 4th of July. Yesterday was one of those cases where a search was done at a premise at #4 and a half miles on the Philip Goldson Highway. During the search, the security forces, which is a combined team of police specialized unit and the Belize Defense Force. A total of 24.857 kilograms was seized, or just over 58 pounds of cannabis. 2 persons have been detained. They should be charged today. Also found was just $12,361.73 was found the house."

For this large quantity of marijuana, police have formally arrested and charged 34-year-old Lynroy Longsworth, and 21-year-old Kenosha Beaton with drug trafficking.