Minor Detained Following Robbery at Belize City Store

Alejandro Cowo

On Saturday night, United Grocery and Laundromat on Euphrates Avenue was targeted by thieves. According to the Bangladeshi owner, four robbers, one armed with a firearm escaped with five hundred dollars in cash and two cell phones. ASP Alejandro Cowo told the media today that a minor, who is well-known to the law, has since been detained for the crime, pending further investigation.

ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City

“Mohammed Nazim Ahmed, a Bangladeshi national and business owner of United Grocery and Laundromat, reported that sometime after seven-fifteen he was inside of his business establishment when four male persons entered the business establishment and demanded that he hand over the money that he had inside the establishment. One of the male persons pointed the firearm at him and the other one entered by jumping the counter and made away with five hundred dollars and two cell phones, all to the total value of two thousand five hundred dollars, Belize currency. In regards to this, police has detained a minor who is presently in police custody being questioned.”