Female Police Officer Involve in Drug Plane Landing?
A woman police officer is being investigated on suspicions that she may have played a role in the recent drug plane landing.
On Friday morning, a farmer discovered the abandoned single-engine aircraft near Frank’s Eddy Village, parked along a dirt road. Authorities believe the plane was used to smuggle narcotics into the country from South America. The interior was completely gutted, and no drugs were found onboard.
Police Commissioner Chester Williams explained that additional searches of the area uncovered “some lights that we believe were used to align the landing strip for the plane along with other few items that we believe were used in facilitating the plane landing.” While the specific cargo remains undetermined, he stated, “We are still trying to ascertain exactly what cargo came on that plane, but as usual, we suspect that it could be cocaine.” Authorities are searching for an individual who may have information about the landing.
Williams also disclosed the detention of a female police officer who allegedly facilitated suspicious activity linked to the landing. “We had detained a female police officer because we believe that she facilitated a person, the person who we believe landed that aircraft, in signing in at the police station outside the hours stipulated by the court.”
He added, “This person is out on bail for a previous plane landing and as a condition to his bail, he was ordered to report or to sign in to the police station every Friday between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Surprisingly, the same night the plane landed, he came to sign in at the police station after 12 midnight. That would be around the same time the plane would be landing. And this female police officer facilitated him to the extent that she took the diary from inside the station and took it outside of the station for him to sign.”
Williams described this as “an egregious breach,” stating, “I’m not going to say that she is involved in a plane landing. But her actions in facilitating this individual, knowing who he is, to have signed in at that particular moment is extremely questionable. So, Professional Standards Branch is looking at that matter, and we expect that charges will be levied against her for breach of our internal policy.”
Despite extensive searches, including the use of drones, police have not located the cargo. “The Sibun River is not too far away from the area where the plane landed, so we believe that if there was any cargo on board the aircraft, it may have, left the area via the Sibun River.”
The drug plane was destroyed by fire on site. “It’s the trend that we do now, instead of putting these planes out for auction and sold to the highest bidder, it’s a policy now that we destroy them so as not to have these planes reused. We have seen instances before where, the planes were auctioned off and then next thing we know, the planes end up right back in Belize again with another set of cargo.”
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