The ComPol also added that a female police officer has been detained while the cops investigate this landing. Here's what he told us.

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Friday morning, sometime around 9am, we received a call from a farmer who was on his way to farm in the Frank's Eddy area and he stumbled upon a plane. He called us and we responded to the area. upon getting there, the police observed a single engine aircraft. A search of the aircraft revealed nothing, but the back seats were removed, the only two seats were that of the pilots. Searches were conducted in the area, police found some lights that we believe were use to align the landing strip for the plane along with other fuel items that we believe were used in facilitating the plane landing. We are still trying to ascertain exactly what cargo came on that plane but as usual we suspect that it could be cocaine. We are looking for one individual likewise who we believe will be able to provide some information to us as it relates to that plane landing. And I can also say to you, I don't want to hide nothing. we have detained a police officer, a female police officer because we believe that she facilitated a person, the person we believe landed that aircraft, in signing in at the police station outside the hours stipulated by the court. This person is on bail for a previous plane landing and as a condition to his bail, he was ordered to report or to sign in to the Belmopan police station, every Friday between 8am and 5pm. Surprisingly, the same night the plane landed, he came to sign into the police station after 12 midnight. That would be around the same time the plane would be landing. And this female police officer facilitated him to the extent that she took the diary from inside the station and took it outside the station for him to sign. That for us is an egregious breach. I'm not going to say that she is involved in the plane landing, but her actions in facilitating this individual, knowing who he is, to have signed in at that particular moment is extremely questionable."

But what happened to the cargo, and why wasn't JIOC tracking the flight? We asked Williams.

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"JIOC would be in a better position to explain why they were unable to provide to us at tracking on that particular night in question. As you know, we're not the ones who work or manage JIOC. We would normally be fed with information coming out of JIOC as it related to the tracking and once we get that information then we activate our operational teams to go into different areas that we would anticipate the plane may likely land. But in this case, that did not occur."

"We have searched the entire area using drones and we have not been able to do so. The Sibun River is not too far away from the area where the plane landed so we believe if there was any cargo on board the aircraft, it may have left the area via the Sibun River."

Reporter:
"How was this plane disposed of because we came to the understanding that it was burnt, why was this the case?"

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Yes, that's a directive that the plane be destroyed. It's the trend that we do now. Instead of putting these planes out for auction and sold to the highest bidder, it's the policy now that we destroy them so as to not have these planes reused. We have seen instances before where the planes were auctioned off and then the next thing we know, the plane ends up right back in Belize with another set of cargo so to eliminate that from happening, these aircrafts are now destroyed on the spot."

Courtney Menzies:
"Is this the first suspected drug plane to have landed since the one in Corazon Creek last December?"

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Yes."