Armin Bouchub is Charged for Cotton Tree Murder

The Belize Police Department has made an arrest in the Sunday morning murder of Otoniel Mateo in Cotton Tree Village.  Earlier today, twenty-six-year-old Armin Amado Bouchub, a stevedore of Cayo District, was arrested and charged in connection with the shooting death of Mateo.  As we reported, Mateo was inside his apartment in the early hours of Sunday morning when a pair of men came knocking at his door.  When Mateo opened the door, the men got into a physical altercation during which he was fatally shot.  His attackers then fled the scene of the deadly shooting.  On Monday, police began circulating a wanted poster of Bouchub, but did not specify the reason he was being sought.  During an interview on Monday, Assistant Commissioner of Police Hilberto Romero told reporters that the motive for the murder was an argument over a woman.