Money-changer robbed near Western Border
A Belizean money-changer was held up at gunpoint near the Guatemalan border this morning. Around 8 a.m. Edgar Contreras was on his way to Guatemala from Benque when he says a man stopped his truck and held him up. The robber made off with four thousand quetzales or about one thousand Belizean dollars and fled to the Guatemalan side of the border. Melchor police are assisting the Benque police in connection with the incident.
