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Murder Charge against ‘BSAG Eight’ Dismissed

1,526 views · Published 27 September 2018 · 2:27 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Greater Belize Media | GBM · 2018 · News & Politics

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Eight lawmen jointly charged for murdering forty-six-year-old Ariel Audinette had the charges dismissed this morning when they appeared in the Orange Walk Magistrate Court.  Police officer Lennart Cajun; B.D.F. soldiers Mateo Bolon, Patrick Villagran Senior, Patrick Diego, Elvis Cob, Edmar Petillo, Bladimir Escarraga and Francis Sho were accused of violently beating Audinett to death at his house in Orange Walk on February twenty-second, 2018. Audinette died due to blunt force trauma having sustained broken bones which ruptured his kidneys and liver. Cajun, who is assigned to the Special Patrol Unit, and the soldiers, who are assigned to the Belize Special Assignment Group, showed up to Audinette’s house looking for a stolen cell phone which belonged to a woman. The officers were wearing masks and did not find the phone, but allegedly put a severe beating on Audinette and his friends, Noe Sanchez and Oscar Payes. Audinette died while receiving treatment at the Northern Regional Hospital hours later. The case was set for preliminary inquiry today, but the crown told the court that the case file was not ready, prompting defense attorney, Oscar Selgado and his colleagues, Senior counsels Simeon Sampson and Ellis Arnold, to successfully ask the court to dismiss the charges against the group. Selgado explains.

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