One of Three Murder Suspects Captured

Teodoro Garcia

Investigators have captured and arrested one person believed to have had a role in the double murder of fifty-five-year-old tour guide operator Quintin Espinosa and seventy-year-old U.S.A. citizen Roland Burley. Twenty-year-old Teodoro Garcia was charged with two counts of murder. Espinosa and Burley were found fatally shot on May twenty-second at a house in a farm on the Hopkins Road. Garcia had been on the run and was captured on Thursday last in the Belize District. According to Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett, two other suspects are being sought for the heinous crime. 

ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch

“On Friday last police arrested and charged Theodore Garcia twenty years in respect to the double murder which had occurred in Hopkins few weeks ago. The investigation is still ongoing and it is expected that once the investigation turns a certain direction that others may be charged.”

Joseph Myvett

Hipolito Novelo

“Is there any kind of insight as to how the officers were able to crack the case, sir?”

ACP Joseph Myvett

“No, I won’t go into the details of that.”

Hipolito Novelo

“Sir what about where he was found and when?”

ACP Joseph Myvett

“He was found somewhere in the Belize District. I believe Thursday it was.”

Hipolito Novelo

“And investigators are looking for two other persons?”

ACP Joseph Myvett

“Yes.”