4 persons caught with 7 pounds of weed at Mexican border
At the northern border on Thursday evening, custom officers busted a group of men returning from Chetumal. Belize City resident thirty-two year old Derrick Thompson was behind the steering wheel of a van with Belize City license plates. Thompson was travelling along with thirty-six year old Keisha Garnett, twenty-five year old James Welch and thirty-six year old Jason Brown, all of Belize City. A search of the van yielded three parcels of cannabis totalling a little under seven pounds. The group of four were handed over to the police and are in detention pending charges.
