500 dollars for three pounds of tomatoes? That's what an Orange Walk vegetable vendor will have to pay after BAHA determined that he was selling produce smuggled over from Mexico.

This morning, BAHA personnel called police to go with them to check "Gabis vegetable stand" on the Belize Corozal Road and Pasadita street. He was found with 3 pounds of Mexican tomatoes and was fined $500 dollars. The owner paid it immediately.

In April BAHA announced that importing agricultural products without the necessary permit is illegal and that the possession of illegally imported agricultural products is prohibited. Anyone caught with illegal products will be fined and/or prosecuted.