Guns & Halloween masks seized in Belize City
Police may have foiled a sinister Halloween outing on Saturday night when a mobile patrol responded to a report of gunfire near the Lord’s Ridge Cemetery. When they arrived at the Antelope Street Extension they stopped a brown Toyota they believed might contain the culprits and discovered some serious arms, ammunition and Halloween masks.
Sgt. Clement Cacho, Detective, CIB
?Police were in the immediate area of Antelope Street Extension when they heard apparent shots being fire. As a result, the police visited the area whereby they met a brown car approaching. The car was intersected based on suspicion, whereby the driver of the vehicle, got out of the vehicle and ran and the other three occupants were apprehended by police.?
Jacqueline Woods
?When the vehicle was searched what was found??
Sgt. Clement Cacho
?Police found three firearms: an AK rifle, an oozie, and a 9mm, handgun with ammunitions for all three weapons and a bullet proof vest.?
Jacqueline Woods
?What is alarming about this find? Was it the type weapons that were found??
Sgt. Clement Cacho
?It is both the type of weapons and the equipments that were with the individuals. There were masks likewise. So it gives us the impression that they were about to do some kind of illegal activity.?
Although one of the suspects managed to escape, the three other men arrested have been identified as twenty four year old Sheldon Tillett, nineteen year old Micah Thompson and nineteen year old Brian Herrera all of a George Street address. The trio has been charged with keeping a prohibited firearm, keeping unlicensed ammunition and going equipped to steal. Thompson, who was found with the 9mm on his person, was additionally charged with Possession of an-unlicensed firearm and ammunition and a second charge of going equipped to steal. Police say they have determined the Toyota car was stolen.
