Kidnapping and triple murder may be related
Today, as four men were charged in the kidnapping of Percival Flowers, speculation increased that what went down at St. Paul’s Bank on Monday night did not take place in a vacuum. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has been working the case and finds that some widely spread dots are beginning to form a recognizable picture.
Carmen Zetina, Police Commissioner
“Well we must get concerned because it is something very unusual taking place, and yes, heinous crimes are in fact being committed, but it is something that we have to continue fighting.”
Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
Police Commissioner Carmen Zetina talking about recent incidents of kidnapping and murder. In the latest case involving St. Paul’s Bank resident, fifty-year-old Percival Flowers, four persons suspected to be involved were this morning taken over to Magistrate’s court.
Twenty-one year old Aaron Miller of Orange Walk Town and twenty-five year old Eugene Carter of Belize City have been charged with two counts each of attempted murder, kidnapping, robbery, aggravated assault, keeping prohibited firearm and keeping unlicensed ammunition. Thirty-six year old Dean Gillett of Lord’s Bank and forty six year old Gilroy Thompson of St. Paul’s Bank have been charged with two counts each of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
Percival Flowers, Kidnap Victim
“Well, I feel good. I hope the law should keep them there for some time, because I am out here. If they let them go, they will still find some more new men and come after Percy. Because it looks like they want me to die.”
Flowers would not say on camera why the men went looking for him, but word on the street is that the fisherman, sometime between May and June, came across a bale of drugs floating in sea in the vicinity of his fishing camp. Flowers allegedly sold the drugs and the sixteen thousand and fifty dollars that was handed to the kidnappers, in exchange for Flowers’ life, was the proceeds from the drug sale. Flowers says before he was attacked, two of the suspects visited him at his fishing camp accusing him of the cocaine find.
Percival Flowers
“It’s not no drugs money, but the guys them feel like I find drugs, which is the same two guys that they charged there, which is Mr. Gillett and Mr. Thompson. They come by my place more than one time.”
Police say they are investigating this latest incident from all angles and refused to comment on whether or not Flowers’ kidnapping, and the double homicide at Stake Bank Caye last month, are related.
Again, speculation is that the Cerna family may have also come across some drugs by their fishing camp and that is the reason why they were killed. Flowers says he does not know what happened to the couple, but strongly suspects that whoever went looking for him at his camp on Sunday, June twenty-ninth, may have also visited Stake Bank.
Percival Flowers
“I was not there one Sunday, same time they kill the people them in Stake Bank. So the watchman mek I know some guys come yah Mr. Flowers and they di ask for you, Percy. That’s what he told me. So I ask him, “Did you recognise anybody?” And he said yes, I know I see a dark Rasta man and he see a next guy he know well. I ask him what time they leave? He say they leave from here seven o’clock. And it was in the night. And that way I could say that maybe dah the same guys they gone deh the same night, because they left deh late and that incident happen the night, right there in Stake Bank.”
Flowers says he has every intention to return to his fishing camp, but remains very concerned about his family’s safety.
Percival Flowers
“Well right now we kinda inna a little problem, which we have this little thing going on here with these people. Which, it’s not my home, I just stay here with my girlfriend, which is my common-law wife. So, I have them in a big thing right now with this kind of situation with these jacker boys. So I feel very bad about it with the people I’m living with right now, it’s very dangerous with them.”
Jacqueline Woods for News 5.
Police continue to search for a fifth suspect in the kidnapping and attempted murder of Percival Flowers.
