Gang rivalries have been fueling crime in Dangriga and a police operational team went to the south last week to crack down on the gangs.
On Friday afternoon, anti gang efforts in Dangriga led to a significant weapons stash linked to one of the town's gangs. The search of an abandoned lot in the 2nd New Site area, Dangriga Town turned up a black plastic bag concealed in a bushy area. Inside police found a high powered submachine gun with ample ammunition. The head of national crimes investigation told us more:
ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch
"As a part of the Dangriga investigation as a result of the spike in crime in Dangriga which the commissioner had spoken about when we last met, several operations were carried out in the south of the country beginning with the first one on Friday members of the anti-gang task force and other units of the Belize Police Departmet conducted an operation in the second new site area of Dangriga Town also known as the "Salty Dog" area where a search was conducted on an empty lot where police retrieved a black plastic bag and when opened it contained one Mack ten weapon along with fifty-two nine millmetre rounds of ammunition; one thirty-eight special revolver along with two thirty-eight rounds and one hundred and five point two-twenty-three rounds of ammunition. No one was found in the area at the time so those items were retrieved and will be sent to the lab for analysis. The investigation continues and we do expect that we will recover more weapons as a part of the investigation."
Reporter
"You have any ideas who these cache of weapons and bullets belong to? Are you investigating that?"
ACP Joseph Myvett
"Well yes we are and that is a part of the investigation, hence the reason why these things are being sent to the lab to determine whether any prints can be lifted from them or whether or not these weapons have been used in the commission of any previous crimes."
Reporter
"Any idea to the origin in terms of do you guys believe that they came from across the border?"
ACP Joseph Myvett
"We are looking at that at this point in time, but through the Interpol system their origin at this point in time have not yet been traced."
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