Major Cocaine Bust in Sarteneja Village, Four Persons Jailed

Police made a major drug bust in Sarteneja Village on Wednesday night. Personnel from the Mobile Interdiction Team and the Corozal Quick Response Team descended on the home of thirty-five-year-old Armando Torres just after nine o’clock and came across twenty-five parcels of cocaine amounting to twenty-eight kilograms.  Present at the time of the search were thirty-six-year-old Mirna Durantes, thirty-two-year-old Delwyn Novelo and thirty-seven-year-old Nigel Neal. Today, all four individuals were formally charged with possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply. They were arraigned at the Corozal Magistrate’s Court, where Torres pleaded guilty with an explanation, while the others pleaded not guilty. No plea was entered for Torres. Here’s Commissioner of Police Chester Williams with additional details.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“The police in Sartaneja, the Corozal District, and particularly the Corozal Police, along with some of the elements that we have currently deployed in the northern area as a part of our northern operations conducted an operation yesterday or last night sometime around 9 p.m. thereabout in this certain area. The operation took them to a home where searches were conducted. The search led to the discovery of twenty-five parcels of what we suspect to be cocaine.  The cocaine was taken into police custody along with four persons who were found at the home. The four persons included three male and one female.  At the Corozal police station, the suspected cocaine was weighed, and it amounted to just over twenty-eight kilograms. Those persons, as I said, are in police custody and are expected to be charged today with drug trafficking.”

 

All four individuals have been remanded to the Kolbe Foundation until Friday, November fifteenth, 2024.