Narco-Traffickers Used Spikes on Road to Stop Law Enforcement

Chester Williams

As to the plane that landed up north on Tuesday morning. ComPol Chester Williams confirmed that the aircraft landed in Fireburn Village in the Orange Walk District.  And as it would appear, the narco-traffickers have become crafty in carrying out their illegal activities. Spikes were laid across the road to prevent the responding officers from intercepting the crime. By the time law enforcement officers arrived at the scene, the illegal cargo from the plane had already been offloaded and removed from the area – purportedly via the river that flows into nearby Mexico.

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“It disappeared off the radar so we lost communication or sight of it even on the radar and then when it did reappear again, it is because we had been told that it landed in the Fireburn area. I think that’s somewhere behind Carmelita Village in the Orange Walk District. I must say that we had a team in that area at Carmelita and that team quickly made its way to the location, but while they were doing so, apparently the traffickers had placed spikes on the road and the spikes caused damage to all the tires of the vehicle. So that disabled the team from reaching the location within a timely manner. And by the time another vehicle came to assist and get the team to the location, the plane was found without its cargo. We continue to conduct operations within that area with a view to see if we would be able to locate the cargo and those persons who may be responsible behind this landing. I think it took our team like three hours to get to the plane after the team experienced the spikes. Three hours would have been quite reasonable if they have adequate vehicle or resources to move the cargo from point A to point B. And you know there is a river nearby and certainly they would not move it by road, but rather via the river. And that river that is there runs all the way to Botes, Mexico, so we believe that’s the route that they took. Nonetheless, just to be sure, we are operating as if it is still in the area. We have teams there still conducting searches and we are not going to give up so easily. We’ll search as long as we can in the event that it is in the area that we will be able to find it.”