One police nabbed in patrol, another charged for harming wife

A routine patrol conducted by the Transport Department stumbled on an unexpected find in southern Belize last Friday evening. Chief Transport Officer, John Briggs, reports that while he was on a patrol in the Seine Bight Village, he spotted a brown vehicle with no license plates. The transport officer caught up with the vehicle and ordered the occupants out; the first to alight was twenty-four year old police corporal, Shaun Andrews. The other occupants were twenty-one year old Jariot Tillet, twenty year old Shawn Henry and nineteen year old Cupton Casey who hail from the village of Camalote in western Belize. When the officers conducted a search of the vehicle they located one black sawed off shotgun and five rounds of ammunition under the driver’s seat and in a further search on Andrews, they found a point thirty-eight revolver and five live rounds of point thirty-eight ammunition. All four persons are in police custody pending charges.

In another case of policemen on the wrong side of the law, Police Constable Norman Bol appeared in Magistrate Court for beating and threatening his Twenty-three year old common-law-wife, Celia Itzah and was charged with Harm and Threatening Words. The incident occurred around six p.m. on July sixteenth. Itzah reported that she was at home when Bol accused her of having an affair with a neighbour. The squabble became violent when Bol punched her twice on the left side of her face and threatened to kill her for being unfaithful to him. He was offered bail of seven hundred dollars and his case was adjourned until August twenty-ninth.