ComPol Williams: No Drug Plane Found

Chester Williams

On Thursday last, members of the Special Operations Task Force were deployed to an area near Dolores Village in the Toledo District after receiving intelligence of a low-lying plane. The suspected narco plane was seen flying low as early as two o’clock that morning and initial reports suggested that it would be landing near Graham Creek, which is close to the Sarstoon River.  B.D.F. soldiers and police officers since Thursday were looking for the plane after radar showed it disappeared in the area. Four days after, the plane has not been found and according to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, the plane may have landed on the Guatemalan side of the border.

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“At this time we have no information or concrete information that a plane did land. Yes we had received preliminary information that a plane may have landed but as you rightly said, member of the B.D.F. Special Assignment Team along with police officers had gone to the area. They made extensive searches of the area and there was no sight or no sign of any plane having landed in the area.”

Hipolito Novelo

“And like the last plane landing did the authorities here had received any information from other counterparts of the region that the plane had left that country?”

Chester Williams

“Well of course. We were out that night. We were monitoring the different tracks coming in the air space and the plane did fade off to that area, but you would know that the area is really close to the Guatemalan border so it could be that it went in to Guatemala instead of Belize.”

Hipolito Novelo

“Are you able to say however that Guatemalan Armed Forces had informed B.D.F. and law enforcement that it did land on Belizean territory, not on the Guatemalan side?”

Chester Williams

“I don’t know about that.”