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Apr 17, 2001

Second suspect charged in bank heist

In news just in another arrest has been made in the burglary of the Belize Bank in San Ignacio. Twenty-three year old Louis Leslie Castellanos of Santa Elena was arrested and charged today with burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary. Thirty-two year old Javier Ramirez of Orange Walk was charged two weeks ago for the heist in which two hundred and seventy thousand dollars were stolen by robbers who used a drainage tunnel which ran under the bank to gain access to the vault.


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