3 Persons Charged for Drug Plane Bust
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Channel: Greater Belize Media | GBM · 2018 · News & Politics
For the latest news across Belize, visit: http://edition.channel5belize.com/ Police have charged three persons in connection with Sunday drug bust. They are Peter Friesen Junior, a Blue Creek resident along with two Mexican nationals, Eli Figueroa Nunez and Azarias Manzano and are yet to be arraigned. The charges are importing drugs into Belize and drug trafficking, but according to the charge sheet, others will be charged. On Sunday, police and B.D.F. busted a single engine Cessna coming from Venezuela with one thousand two hundred and twenty six pounds of cocaine in the Tres Leguas area of Blue Creek, Orange Walk. On Tuesday evening, police placed Superintendent David Chi on administrative leave. Chi is the commanding officer of the Orange Walk Formation and according to well-placed sources; Chi is expected to be charged. Today, we caught up with attorney Dickie Bradley who spoke about the charges against Friesen, whose father is a Mennonite and his mother is Belizean.
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