Bz City robberies end otherwise quiet week

After nearly a month of mayhem on the streets of Belize City this week opened as quietly as a church picnic…but the peace couldn’t last forever. At news time police are looking for two men who on Thursday afternoon held up the Belama Shopping Centre. According to proprietor Adwon Assad, he was inside the store located in Belama Extension Phase Two, when two dark complexioned men entered the building and ordered an orange juice. One of the men, who wore braids, took out a handgun and demanded money while the other stood guard at the door. Assad says the assailant took one thousand, five hundred dollars from the cash drawer plus five hundred dollars worth of BTL Telecards. The men then escaped in a cream coloured Ford van without license plates. Police say at this time they do not have any suspects.

Police are also in pursuit of a young man who held up the Texaco gas station on the river at San Cas Plaza. The incident happened Wednesday around eleven a.m. According to cashier Steve Ferrell, the robber, who was tall, slim and fair complexioned, entered the station and–just like the jacker in the previous story–asked for an orange juice. When he was told there was none, he pulled a gun from his pocket and helped himself to seven hundred and seventy dollars from the cash drawer. No arrests have yet been made.