Mother Says She’ll Sue for Unlawful Detention of Son
Delson and Tionne Paguada
Two days after San Pedro police detained her son for the murder of American tourist J’Bria Bowens at the start of the year, Amancia Martinez came public. She claimed that her son, Delson, was at home at the time Bowens was gunned down near the Central Park in San Pedro, but that the police still detained and later charged him with the crime. Both of Martinez’s sons, Delson and Tionne were this week sentenced to thirty years imprisonment for the 2018 murder of Paul Jex. At the time of the Bowens murder on New Year’s Eve, the brothers were on bail and placed on curfew as one of the conditions of their bail. Martinez swore in her interview with us that her son was at home when the murder occurred. And now that the police have withdrawn the charge against him, Martinez vows that she will sue the Police Department.
Via phone: Amancia Martinez, Mother of Delson and Tionne Paguada
“They gone and pick up my son out of them bed to set that crime about the tourist lady, the nurse who was got killed, shot and killed at the Central Park of San Pedro, the 30th – in January. So no, they, they find out, they find out that it wasn’t my son, because my son was inside of, in my house. They pick up my son, they make So they, they gone to the central, they gone to Central Park, run across the bridge, and they gonna pick up my son, the other two boys, and set the crime about them, you know? So now, after one year, they find out that never, my son, that never the other two boys. So then you’re suddenly, they want dismiss the case now. So now once they dismiss this case ya against the tourist, because then you can pick up my son there and set crime on them, I going to sue the government. I need to sue the government, because I’ve been spending lots of money about this same case, going to Belize City, going to prison, paying $100 for a taxi every two weeks to go see my son deh. Sending my son for one year to jail about something that we never have no like no knowledge about.”
