Waste Control robbed of over $20,000

Tonight the company that carts away the city’s garbage has had something of its own carted away. Twenty thousand dollars to be exact. According to the owner of Belize Waste Control, Tony Griffith Sr., he got a call from his manager about 12:20 this morning telling him the business had been burglarised. Griffith says when he arrived he found the thirty-seven year old watchman, Calvin Graham, tied up. Graham reported that three masked men armed with a gun and machete entered the compound on the Western Highway, kicked open the back door, went into the office and removed a steel safe. The safe, measuring thirty-six inches long and eighteen inches wide, was carried over the gate and dragged about twenty-five yards up the highway where the get-away car was parked. Griffith told News 5 he believes it was an inside job or that a former employee was working with the burglars. As for the twenty-thousand, four hundred dollars in cash and over three thousand in cheques, he said it’s not customary for them to have so much money on hand overnight, but he was going away to buy equipment today and was too busy to make a bank deposit.