Security guard charged in two deaths at Chalillo
The crime occurred far enough off the beaten path that even under the best conditions, details would have been slow to surface. But thanks to the lack of phone service the story of two deaths in the old Cayo logging village of Augustine is only now beginning to emerge. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports.
Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
This is the twelve-gauge pump action gun San Ignacio police believe forty-five year old Honduran, Ysidiro Rafael Juarez, an employee of Anchor Security Services, used to shoot four employees at the Chalillo Dam camp in the Mountain Pine Ridge. Two of the workers killed have been identified as Santos Canales and Vicente Garcia. According to the Officer in Charge of the San Ignacio Police, Assistant Superintendent Gilroy Nicholas, sometime around ten on Friday night an argument started between the men and the camp?s security guards
A.S.P. Gilroy Nicholas, O.C. San Ignacio Police Station
?Well our investigation reveal that these chaps were coming in from a night of party when some argument erupted between them and security, because it seems that their regulations that when they are drinking or if they are drunk they should not go on the compound.?
Jacqueline Woods
?And only one security guard opened fire on these men??
A.S.P. Gilroy Nicholas
?Our investigation reveal, yes, that only one person fired on them, even though there were three securities.?
According to Nicholas, because there was no phone service the police could not be contacted until four hours after the incident.
A.S.P. Gilroy Nicholas
?From our investigation, this incident happened around ten on Friday night. We did not get that report until after two p.m. because of communication problems. That?s why our response time was very slow.?
Juarez has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. He has been remanded to the Hattieville prison. Jacqueline Woods for News Five.
In addition to the murder victims, two other men, also workers on the Chalillo project were wounded. They are Arturo Wang and Salvador Perez. Both are recovering from their injuries. Nicholas says the gun was licensed to Anchor Security Services and that based on their investigation none of the workers were armed.
In other police news from the west, around eight this morning San Ignacio police visited the offices of the Social Security Board, where at the entrance to the compound they discovered a suspicious looking package that resembled a bomb. Shortly afterwards, a similar device was found at the local B.T.L. office. Both contraptions proved to be crudely constructed cardboard fakes and police are investigating.
