Hotel robbed in Belize City

As crimes go it may not compare to the mayhem on the Hummingbird, but by Belize City standards it was a major stickup. Shortly after one this morning, twenty five year old Santiago Zaiden, security guard at the Fiesta Inn reported that he went to investigate a noise coming from the south part of the building. That’s when, according to police reports, he saw a masked man wearing gloves and dressed in black. The man then jumped the fence into the hotel compound and held Zaiden up at gunpoint. The guard told police he was then taken into the hotel’s lobby where the receptionist, thirty year old Jacqueline Aguet was then ordered to place all her cash, a total of sixteen hundred dollars, in the robber’s bag. Aguet was then tied up, while Zaiden was taken outside and handcuffed to a coconut tree. Although the security guard said he saw no one else, he did report to police that he heard a voice from the opposite side of the fence and shortly after a vehicle was heard leaving the scene. Police at this time do not have any suspects and are investigating the incident.