A routine mobile patrol yesterday by Ladyville Police resulted in a bust of suspected criminals while at the same time solving a robbery that had just been reported to headquarters. It all unfolded around three thirty on Tuesday evening on a feeder road just off the Northern Highway. According to the officer in charge of Ladyville Sub Formation Inspector Calbert Flowers the police on patrol were drawn to a suspicious looking vehicle parked on the Hydro Road but nothing prepared the officers for what they found inside the green Ford Explorer.

Insp. Calbert Flowers,
“Our mobile patrol was on patrol on a feeder road leading into the Burrell Boom Road where they saw a heavily tinted green Ford Explorer vehicle. They intercepted the vehicle where they found five occupants. They conducted searches on these occupants and they found a nine milimeter pistol with 15 live rounds of ammunition. Also found on their persons and in the vehicle were assorted telephone cards, just over $700 in cash and two cell phones.”

Jacqueline Godwin,
Further investigations revealed what?

Insp. Calbert Flowers,
“Our investigation revealed that there was a robbery in Sandhill just prior to the police intercepting this vehicle. In fact our head station received the call of a robbery and we had dispatched a vehicle in the area but we had a vehicle already doing patrols in the area when they intercepted this vehicle. The proprietor of ‘All in One’ Supermarket in Sandhill reported that sometime just after 3 pm, two male persons entered their place of business and one of them pulled out a handgun, pointed it on her, and demanded money. They proceeded to rob them of assorted telephone cards, some monies, and a Belize Bank check. All these items were recovered from these persons in the vehicle.

They are presently in police custody pending charges for this robbery as well as we are investigating some similar robberies in the past and previous robberies we believe that they may be involved and they surely will be charged for keeping an unlicensed firearm and ammunition without a license.”

The phone cards totalled to a value of $2,582. Included in the assortment of cash police also discovered a Belize Bank cheque for one hundred and fifty six dollars. The accused have been identified as twenty eight year old Oren Humes, twenty four year old Harold Matrie, two sixteen year old minors and a fifteen year old minor. All five persons are expected to be charged by tomorrow and taken to court.