Belizean trucker missing in Guatemala
A Corozal family is tonight anxiously awaiting word on a relative who has been missing for a week now in Guatemala. Fifty-seven year old Orlando Bodden was contracted to transport a truck load of raw alcohol from the Guatemalan City of Puerto Barios to Belize last week, but his family lost all contact with him last Wednesday, and now suspect he may be in trouble. According to Orlando’s brother, Arlo, he simply vanished.
Arlo Bodden, Brother is missing in Guatemala
“Right now we don’t know. No trace of the truck, the driver or the tank, and it’s a freight liner. A white freight liner, and it?s very easy to locate because on the rear of the truck it has a big flag, Belize flag and it mark Belize. So from far you see the truck, you could know it, one white freight liner with a big Belize flag on the back.”
“Wednesday morning four a.m. he phoned me and he said Arlo, you know what, your truck looks suspicious and it?s very funny, and I won’t drive the truck. I will catch the bus and I will go direct to the border and make those guys bring the truck to the border. So I asked him, why. He said because Tuesday he did not go to load the truck. They took the truck and they came back late in the night. So probably he suspect something is in the truck or in the tank. So that be the case, I told him to just leave truck, reach the border and I will go and see about my truck.”
“I even tell my brother why is he speaking to me in Spanish. Talk to me in Creole, we could understand, but not in Spanish. He said, no I am talking in Spanish because I want people here to hear what I am saying to you because he say the truck is suspicious and he won?t drive it. He will catch the bus to Benque border.”
“I’m worried about my brother, not the truck. They could take the truck, do whatever they want with it. My interest is to send my brother back home.”
Bodden says he has distributed posters with his brother’s picture in Puerto Barios and other areas along the route in the hope of someone forwarding information to the family. Anyone with information that may help in leading the Bodden family to Orlando is asked to call 422-3623 or 610-5655.
