Police capture Dangriga’s most wanted in Belize City
He’s been on the police wanted list since Monday night after four Chinese businesspeople were attacked, two of them fatally in Dangriga Town. But four days later the law has caught up with eighteen year old Percival Jones. This afternoon police apprehended Jones not in Dangriga, but Belize City. The teen had just dropped by his father’s Taylor’s Alley home when police closed in on him. Jones’ father, Percival Blancaneaux, was across the street when someone told him police were arresting his son. He told News Five that while Jones is not a saint, he does not believe he could commit murder.
Percival Blancaneaux, Father of Accused Murderer
“Ih come bout ten minutes before the police come. I never get a chance to speak to him. I walked them over to the police car and I asked them not to hurt him and he had new bruises and stuff so the police promise me that nothing is going to happen to him.”
Marion Ali
“What did you observe on him?”
Percival Blancaneaux
“When he took his shirt off he had a scar on his back.”
Marion Ali
“What kind of a scar? Knife?”
Percival Blancaneaux
“No no, like something scrape him”
Marion Ali
“In his back?”
Percival Blancaneaux
“Yes, or something like that.”
Marion Ali
“The police are saying that he is the man who killed two Chinese businessmen in Dangriga.”
Percival Blancaneaux
“I noh know nothing about that. He dah wah lee bad boy right but not to kill nobody. He’s mischievous, he’s a kid, I noh really know.”
Marion Ali
“You don’t think he did it?”
Percival Blancaneaux
“I don’t think so.”
Gerald Westby, Commissioner of Police
“I myself was very, very disturbed when I got the report early the morning and that is why we immediately dispatched senior superintendent Magdaleno and an entire team of senior investigators along with the, intelligence officers and the anti-drug unit and the special patrol unit because heinous crimes like this cannot be allowed to go unpunished.”
Westby says the Police Department will increase its patrols for the Christmas season as of November fifteenth.
