Thieves touch businessman for $40,000 plus guns

It could have been the perfect crime but the perpetrators stuck around long enough to get caught. Sometime between April eleventh and April fourteenth, Belize City businessman Luke Espat’s penthouse apartment in the Renaissance Towers was burglarised and police now believe it was the work of three conspirators. First there’s the building’s security guard, twenty-four year old Mark Godoy, whom police believe allowed his accomplices to access the elevator and make their way to the seventh floor. The thieves busted down the front door and then helped themselves to a safe containing forty-thousand dollars in cash, a nine millimetre handgun, a Beretta pistol, a laptop, a cell phone, three boxes of nine millimetre ammunition, three nine millimetre magazines and three DVDs. It is then believed that the culprits used a taxi to cart it all away. Police have since detained taxi driver Richard Flowers Senior for questioning but up to news time he had not been charged. Godoy appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie this afternoon where he was charged with Burglary and Conspiracy to Commit Burglary. He pled not guilty to the charges. McKenzie upheld the prosecution’s objection to bail and has ordered Godoy remanded until May fourteenth. Police tell News Five they are now looking to question a third man, Kent Skeet, believed to be involved in the burglary. While police have reportedly recovered a portion of the safe, the money, weapons and electronic equipment are still missing.