Guatemalan farmer given 5 more years for ammunition found on his person

A Guatemalan farmer, who is serving five years at the Belize Central Prison, will have an additional five years to contemplate the error of his ways. Twenty-four year old inmate, David Lopez, was being escorted from the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court to prison when a routine search was conducted on him. Police say they found Lopez in possession of seven rounds of twenty-five caliber ammunition wrapped in a piece of green cloth inside a bag.  Today, Lopez appeared in Belize City Magistrate’s Court, where he was read a single charge of keeping ammunition without a gun license.  He did not waste any time in pleading guilty, telling Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith that he was forced by a man to bring the cartridges with him.  That plea didn’t help his case, and he will now have to serve ten years at the Belize Central Prison.