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Jan 18, 2021

Police Search Drug Dealer’s Residence; Small Quantity of Cocaine is Found!

Last Wednesday, police carried out a search at the home of a well-known drug operative in the north.  There, cops and the K9 unit sniffed out four packets of cocaine that weighed zero point two six ounces.  ACP Myvett provided the details.

 

Joseph Myvett

ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch

“Police executed a search at the residence of twenty-seven-year-old Amin Mendez of Liberty Avenue in Orange Walk and at the time Mendez was accompanied by William Ramirez and a sixteen-year-old minor. The police with the assistance of the K-9 Unit conducted searches inside the residence which resulted in the discovery of four separate amounts of suspected cocaine in transparent plastic bags each weighting one point nine gram. As a result, those persons were taken into custody and have been arrested and charged with possession and intent to supply a control drug.”


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