Orange Walk man arrested for bank heist

Police report a breakthrough in last month’s heist of the Belize Bank in San Ignacio. Over the weekend thirty-two year old Javier Ramirez of Orange Walk was arrested and charged with burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary in connection with the break in which occurred sometime over the March ninth holiday weekend. At that time thieves entered a storm drain which runs under the bank and punched a hole through the concrete floor of the vault. They then used welding equipment to open the various safes and left with over two hundred and seventy thousand dollars in cash. Police are being tight lipped about how they came to finger Ramirez or whether he is cooperating in the investigation. What is known is that several more suspects are being sought.