Police Seeks Public Assistance in Fatal R.T.A. Investigation

Moises Rogelio

Police are seeking assistance from the public in gathering information that may lead to an arrest in a hit and run incident that claimed the life of a thirty-three-year-old father. Moises Rogelio was on his way to his San Jose Palmar home in the Orange Walk District when he was knocked off his motorcycle near miles fifty-eight and fifty-nine on the Phillip Goldson Highway. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood tells us more.

ASP Fitzroy Yearwood

ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department

“On Saturday, around nine fifteen p.m. the sixteenth of April, police responded to a scene around Mile fifty eight and fifty nine on the Phillip Goldson Highway. If you are familiar with this area, it is called the ‘Mama El’ curve, where the saw the lifeless body of Moises Rogelio, and thirty three years on the side of the highway. Also observed on that scene was a black Honda motorcycle with the rear wheel extensively damaged. We know that Rogelio’s body was transported to the Northern Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead. We believe that this was as a result of a hit and run accident. We are asking the general public for assistance in any information that they could assist us in trying to solve this latest hit and run.”