Police find fourteen parcels of suspected cocaine

Caye Caulker police found a red ice box in an area north of the island at around nine on Sunday morning. But it was not cold beers inside, in fact what they found were fourteen parcels wrapped in brown masking tape and believed to be compressed cocaine. No one was at the site of the find, but the cocaine is now in the possession of the anti drug unit of the police department.

While the officers on the island made their discovery, police on mobile patrol on the Stann Creek Valley Road made an arrest for a similar offence. The cops saw when thirty-four year old Ian Chiu, a mechanic of Dangriga Town, exit a GMC Jimmy SUV which he parked at the junction of the valley road and the Southern Highway. Chiu reportedly threw a black plastic bag, which police retrieved and found it to be five point seven pounds cannabis. Chiu now faces charges of Drug Trafficking.