P.U.P. Corozal Bay Files Criminal Complaint Against P.U.P. Supporter

The P.U.P.’s Corozal Bay Area Representative, Elvia Vega-Samos, has pressed charges against a former P.U.P. Corozal Town councilor. It’s become a ‘he-said-she-said’ situation that unfolded during the swear-in ceremony of the town council on Friday night. Samos claims that she was physically assaulted by Dillan Cassanova. In a Facebook post, Vega-Samos said, “I was openly assaulted by an individual, and my husband’s life was threatened. This was done by ‘individuals from my own party who are desperate for power”. In response to Vega-Samos’s claims, Cassanova took to social media to present his version of events, asserting that it was Vega-Samos who initiated the confrontation. According to Cassanova, while he was dancing, Vega-Samos bumped into him. He further stated that, after being verbally harassed by Vega-Samos and her companions, he chose to leave the area and subsequently filed a formal complaint with the police. Vega-Samos says she filed a complaint today and is expecting Cassanova to be criminally charged.

 

Elvia Vega, Area Representative, Corozal Bay

“Hipolito, during the whole swearing in, you had Dylan Casanova coming over to my right side, standing over this side. I’m sitting down and looking at me with eyes of malice. You know, I looked on the other side and then you had other members of Plan Corozal there as well. And I said in my mind, God, you know, just let me focus on what I need to do tonight and let me focus on meeting with the people after this and then go home. And that’s exactly what they did Hipolito.  Now, when after  Prime Minister left the premises, it got worse.  At this time you had  Neri Ramirez coming to insult one of the members because of my executive members because he reached out to him and told him to please control, George, to please control Dylan Casanova and the young man Perez. And  his response was a very offensive one. As you can see in a video that has been going he, the police actually had to restrain him. I stepped only  I would say like two to three tiles away from them  to watch Gilharry 7 and the people that were dancing.  Now,  so the executive, my family are over this side, take into account that nobody’s over this side. So I was standing, watching, observing, when from behind Dylan Casanova came and bumped into me, elbowed me, and I actually lost my balance. I had to try to regain my balance.  So when that happened, I didn’t say anything.  I looked at him because by then I had seen that it’s him. He turned around, he deliberately turned around, looked at me, laughed, and looked at me as to say, ‘So what are you going to do now?’ So at this point, I turned around and I called the policemen because a fight was about to, to start because all the people, they came over towards him that are from Plan Corozal and they came very aggressive. Josue Perez came wanting to, had a fist in his hand wanting to punch Ms. Zeni Perdomo.”