Second suspect charged in hotel heist

A second suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with last month’s robbery of the Princess Hotel. He is twenty-five year old Aniver Palacio of Waight Street in Belize City. Palacio joins twenty-five year old Egbert Vernon, who was arrested on August third in connection with the same crime. Both men have been charged with robbery and conspiracy and remanded to custody until their next court date on August thirty-first. On the morning of July twenty-seventh, two armed men walked into the hotel’s accounting office, held up five employees and walked out with sixty-five thousand dollars from the safe. Palacio is no stranger to police, having been previously charged with several robberies and burglary.