Arthur Young caught at Chetumal airport

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Arthur Young, a man wanted by Belize police was caught in neighboring Chetumal over the weekend.  Young was intercepted by Mexican Federales at the Chetumal Airport as he was attempting to board a seven-fifty a.m. flight to Mexico City, using a forged passport on which officials noted irregularities.  Young was going by the name Edward Roberts. He confessed that he was using the alias because of allegations of crimes he reportedly committed in Belize and is now being processed for the falsification of documents. Young has been charged and acquitted of murder but his latest brush with the law stems back to an incident in April when officers assigned to the Ladyville Police Formation  raided a house in Vista Del Mar where they found drugs, and a lathe machine with a sound suppressor or silencer for weapons. An associate of Young, Errol Haynes, was found in the home, and he has been locked up since the bust.  Identification cards belonging to Young were found in the home, and he is wanted for questioning. But in a phone interview, while in hiding and on the run, Young said that the police want him dead.

Via Phone: Arthur Young, In Hiding (April 8^th, 2010)

“I really fear for my life because they out to try and kill me. I even heard that couple weeks they had a meeting about me saying that wherever they find me, whatever, I know they got the job to do but they reach the point they are harassing me now. I really don’t know where to turn to because nobody is on my side. And the way I move, I don’t really go and tell this one and tell that one. But you know today I just sit down and say this is one of the best reason I need to bring it to the public also. For the truth, I didn’t do anything wrong for them to try give me a charge I didn’t know about.”

Jose Sanchez

“At this point they say you are a person of interest because you rented the house. Does that bring any comfort to you?”

Via Phone: Arthur Young

“Well what I heard is that my name is on the charge sheet. If I’m a person of interest because I’m renting the house then my name should not be on the charge sheet. They went to the house and I heard that they found my old driver’s license and my social card. So I’m saying maybe they are trying to put me there now because I heard couple weeks ago that whatever they can hold against me to send me to jail, do that.  I don’t know why these people are dealing with me like this.”

Jose Sanchez

“So you don’t know anything about the equipment used to make silencer for handguns or books on gun use and tactics?”

Via Phone: Arthur Young

“I don’t know nothing about that. I don’t know what they took out of the house. All I heard is that they went there and took Errol Haynes. I don’t know the details of nothing.  I’m not even there at the time when I heard that. I was somewhere far away from there.”

Jose Sanchez

“At this point you don’t intend to go to the police?”

Via Phone: Arthur Young

“I’m not, I’m in hiding because I fear my life with the police. So I’m in hiding, I already spoke to my attorney and got I some advice.”