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COMPOL On Guat Border Jumpers
posted (August 28, 2020)
The press also asked the Police Commissioner about the 2 Guatemalan border jumpers, 42-year-old Alfredo Colon and 38-year-old Junior Espinosa, who were both were caught by police on the waters of the Stann Creek district on Tuesday morning.

As we told you, police officers from the Intermediate Southern Formation received information of vessels arriving with in-country with contraband goods. So, they went to the Old Forest Dock near Mango Creek, to intercept the boats.

They moved just in time to catch the vessels as they arrived near shore, and the cops ended up finding 2 cartons of Ultra cigarettes and several other loose food items that aren't sold in Belize.

Shortly after the boats were intercepted, a local fisherman showed up at the dock and claimed that the vessels were his.

Here's what the commissioner had to say about that case:

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