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The Enduring Mystery Of Lawmen In A Drug Plane Area After Curfew
posted (June 24, 2020)
As we told you earlier this week, police want to question two of their own, and 3 BDF soldiers about the possibility that they were getting ready to commit a serious crime.

Over the weekend, Coast Guard found the 5 lawmen and 7 civilians in an area near Santa Marta Village, which is located on the boundary between the Cayo and Stann Creek Districts. They were caught in public at around 3 a.m. in the morning, which is within curfew hours. That is suspicious enough, and now the cops want to make absolutely sure that they were not in that area to facilitate the landing of a drug plane.

Today we asked the commissioner for an update:...

Reporter
"Any updates in regards to the order that you had mentioned to arrest the 15 or 17 so called fishermen in the Santa Martha area?"

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Those persons are in custody right now."

Reporter
"Including the police officers and B.D.F. soldiers?"

Chester Williams
"I am not sure if all of them are. I don't want to lie but I have been briefed that 15 were in custody. I am not sure if the 15 include the police and all the B.D.F. I am not too sure. But I know that the investigators are meeting as we speak with the commander of Coast Guard with a view to see what we can obtain from Coast Guard in terms of evidence from those who did the detention in the day in question and the officer in Corozal has been directed that they must assign an officer to lay charges for breach of curfew in the first instance."

Reporter
"Those further questioning what is it that you are looking to get at?"

Chester Williams
"I will not divulge that."

Reporter
"That area we know is area where a lot of narco-plane lands in the Santa Martha area on the old northern highway, when these men were detained or prior to that did the police department received any information that any drug plane may be flying over Belize in that area?"

Chester Williams
"In that night in question, yes we were monitoring 2 tracks that were coming in and we had a team of coast guard officers to deploy the area because you know it's close to the sea and it was that team of coast guard that made the detention."

Reporter
"Is it frustrating to your Sir that the men were released by the Coast Guard officers?"

Chester Williams
"Of course it is. I would have wished that we were contacted first and if they could have find out from us if we had any interest in the individuals before releasing them but it is water under the bridge. The coast guard officers are cooperating with us and I believe that we will achieve what we could have achieve on that day."

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