Ice Cream parlor jacked by three armed men in San Pedro

It wasn’t the ice cream but the cash that was too sweet to resist in an early morning hold up in downtown San Pedro. Manelly’s Ice Cream parlor, located only a few doors away from the Belize Bank was robbed at eight a.m. this morning by three men. According to the owner, forty four year old Helly Del Valle, she normally opens the business at ten a.m. but this morning she changed her routine. Del Valle and two assistants, Mariela Rotana and another woman identified as Clementaina, would have used the time to clean up the business. The three women entered through the back door and soon after, three masked men followed and one of them placed a sharp object on Del Valle and demanded to know where she kept the money. She then pointed to a bag which contained the cash which the robber took and then escaped through the same rear entrance. Police investigators say that they are closing in on the culprits and expect to make arrests soon.