ComPol Chester Williams Responds to Attorney Dickie Bradley’s Comment

Chester Williams

On Monday, Attorney Dickie Bradley and attorney Leeroy Banner represented nine men from rural Belize District, who appeared in the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court, after police intercepted them inside a boat on Hill Bank Lagoon. Bradley told the media that his clients were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when police caught them in the wee hours of last Friday.  Police say that two bales of cocaine were found on the boat with the men and that they violated quarantine regulations. The nine were arraigned and subsequently remanded for the joint charges of Possession of a Controlled Drug with Intent to Supply and Breach of Curfew. Today, we asked Commissioner Chester Williams about Bradley’s comments. Here’s what he had to say.

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“Dickie is my good friend, a very astute attorney; I have a lot of respect for him. And Dickie Bradley has a job to do as the defense council for those persons and maybe perhaps Mister Bradley was at the wrong place at the wrong time when he made those comments as well.”