Recyclers accused of handling stolen equipment

Recycling is always promoted as a good thing but tonight a Belize City company is accused of trying to salvage stolen goods. Between April first and the second, a warehouse belonging to Ian Haylock was burglarized and a five thousand dollars in equipment, including a lawnmower, weedeater, compressor and drill, were stolen. Police investigations led them to forty-year-old Anthony Flowers, a labourer who sells old metal. That tidbit of information took officers to the Belize Recycling Company on Fairweather Street where investigators say they found the missing goods. As a result, company supervisor Carmen Robles and two employees, Ina Nunez and Daren McGregor have been charged with Handling Stolen Goods. The trio pled not guilty and they were all granted bail of twenty-five hundred dollars. All four accused are scheduled to return to Magistrate Court on April twenty-eight.