2 Men Are Charged for Gun Heist at Victor L. Bryant

Randy Chambers & Selvin Linarez

Twenty-one-year-old Randy Chambers made headlines in December 2015, when he was walloped by a trio of officers as he was walking through his family yard on Police Street Extension.  The physical abuse of the young carpenter was captured by a security camera at his parents’ home in an adjacent property.  Tonight, he is once again making the news.  This time, however, he is one of two suspects to have been arraigned for a burglary at Victor L. Bryant where a massive stockpile of firearms and ammunition was stolen sometime on Tuesday night.  It is believed that Chambers, along with twenty-year-old Selvin Linarez, broke into the building on Chetumal Street and made off with an arsenal of weapons and as many as four thousand rounds of different caliber.  Both men appeared individually before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson where Linarez was read five counts of kept firearm without a gun license.  Chambers was then arraigned jointly with Linarez for one count of burglary.  This afternoon, Assistant Superintendent Alejandro Cowo provided an update on the police investigation into the incident, as well as the indictment of the duo.

Alejandro Cowo

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

“On yesterday’s date, two of the persons who were involved in the burglary were charged, namely: Randy Chambers, twenty-one-years-old from Police Street and you have Selvin Linares, twenty-years-old from Ebony Street.  Both of them were charged jointly for the crime of burglary.  Both of them were jointly charged for kept unlicensed firearm and then Selvin Linares was additionally charged for five counts of kept firearm without a gun license.”

Reporter

“Have these two persons cooperated with police beyond taking you all to where these weapons were stashed?”

ASP Alejandro Cowo

“Well that is part of the investigation that we are still dealing with and at this moment, the information that they had provided to us which led to the recovery of the said firearms and ammunition.”

Reporter

“Are you looking for more suspects?”

ASP Alejandro Cowo

“Yes, there is one more person that we are looking for at this moment.”

Both men have been remanded to the central prison in Hattieville until April sixteenth when they are to reappear in court.