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May 26, 1998

Corozal boledo vendor robbed

In other crime news, a lottery vendor from Calcutta Village in the Corozal District has reported to police that he was robbed. Forty-eight year old Mario Moo was riding his bicycle from Libertad Village on Saturday evening. When he reached the junction at the Northern Highway three masked men armed with sticks jumped out of the nearby bushes. They held him up and took away three boledo books valued at nine hundred dollars, as well as fifty dollars in cash before escaping. According to Orange Walk police two of the boledo books were found this afternoon in San Joaquin Village. The two persons trying to cash the tickets are currently being questioned.


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