Was Suspected Drug Plane Picking Up or Discharging Illicit Cargo?
News Five has been reliably informed that the aircraft was not making a drop, but was in fact carrying out a pickup. As has been seen in previous suspected drug plane landings, the aircrafts are normally gutted to make space for the illicit cargo. But this case was different. As the evidence has shown thus far, PC Peter Graham and a Guatemalan national were discovered inside an SUV with aviation fuel and a plane seat. It is suspected that they were making room for cargo that would be taken out of Belize. While he didn’t go into many details, Acting Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that the officers caught up with the aircraft within minutes. He also says that corrupt officers are a concern and will be dealt with.
Chester Williams
Chester Williams, Acting ComPol
“Having the seat of the plane, couple minutes after the landing of the plane, surely creates a nexus between the occupants of that vehicle and the plane. And so we just want to be able to investigate further and gather additional evidence that we believe will be sufficient to lay charges and subsequent conviction. And so that is what I am hoping we will get from the newly composed investigative team. I’m not going to go into specifics as to the police operations, but we has deployed officers prior to but not at that exact location; hence the reason after we got information that the plane has landed, it took the officers a little while to get there, less than half an hour.”
Peter Graham
Reporter
“Sir is it a concern for you that yet again police officers are being placed in proximity to illegal landings of airplanes?”
Chester Williams
“Well it is a concern. We are police and we are expected to uphold the law and police officers are not supposed to be involved in things like these. But at the end of the day, we are a huge organization and police officers we hire are from the general populace and so we will have these things now and then where police officers will be caught involved in illegal activities and it is a matter for us to ensure that we address it and we address it adequately.”
