Two Cops, Siblings, Found Inside a So-called Stolen Vehicle
The Customs and Excise Department is investigating what is being reported as a stolen vehicle that was imported from Mexico a few years ago. The vehicle, a 2017 Seat Ibiza, was pulled over in Corozal earlier this week and behind the wheel was a pair of siblings, both of them are police officers. The vehicle is the property of their mother who reportedly purchased it in 2018, unbeknownst to her that it may have been stolen. That’s according to ComPol Williams, who offered an explanation regarding the incident.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
“We have, over the past few years, confiscated a number of stolen vehicles and I mean vehicles that have been stolen abroad. I guess you have heard Yhoni Rosado about a year ago, ranting about stolen vehicles being taken away from him. Honestly, have you ever in the history of the confiscation of stolen vehicles saw that anybody has been arrested for them? Be honest. Never, ever, ever, have we arrested anybody for vehicles that have been stolen abroad. What we normally do is that it is a matter for customs.”
Reporter
“This has no customs entry though.”
Chester Williams
“Let me get to that. It’s a matter for customs. If customs believes that they were the importer of the vehicle and they evaded customs duties, then customs has a formula that they would apply to be able to recover the duty and punish the person or persons. But in this particular instance, while the two police officers were found in the vehicle, the vehicle does not belong to them. The vehicle belongs to their mother. Their mother bought the vehicle in 2018, from a person in Corozal Town. The vehicle was licensed and insured, customs confirmed that when the vehicle was licensed and insured, it was done with fraudulent documents, not by the mother in whose name the vehicle is in now, but by the person from whom she bought the vehicle. So if your mother has a vehicle that she bought from someone, believing that the vehicle was legitimately bought or brought into the country, here you are driving your mother’s vehicle. You are stopped by customs and police, they learned the vehicle is stolen, do you think it’s going to be fair for them to hold you accountable for it? No.”