BELIZE DISTRICT
MURDER
On the 14th of December 2016 at about 10:30am, Ladyville Police received information of a body floating in the Belize River and visited an area behind the Los Lagos Community on the Belize River. There they saw the body of a dark complexion female about 5 feet 5 inches in height. The body had several cut wounds including the back and head. The body was transported to the medical school at the Burrell Boom Junction where a postmortem examination was conducted certifying the cause of death to be “Traumatic Cranium Insophalic Injuries due to Chop Wound”. The body was not identified due to the advanced state of decomposition. Police are investigating.
CITY OF BELMOPAN
FOUND PROPERTY
On the 13th of December 2016 at about 11:00pm, police was patrolling on the George Price Highway in the vicinity of Blackman Eddie Village, Cayo District, when they found a plastic bag on the side of the highway containing Cannabis. The drugs were weighed and found to amount to 32.1lbs. It was then labelled as Found Property.