K.H.M.H. Worker and Boyfriend Busted for Kept Ammunition

Tonight, a couple is behind bars after police found thirty-four live rounds of nine-millimeter ammunition in their home during a shooting investigation. The suspects are forty-five-year-old K.H.M.H. employee Deborah Harris Sutherland and her twenty-year-old boyfriend, Dejon Medwood. This afternoon, they appeared in court without representation and were each charged with keeping ammunition without a gun license. The bullets were discovered hidden in a drum at their Mahogany Street home in Belize City. Medwood took full responsibility, claiming Sutherland knew nothing about the ammunition, and pleaded guilty. Despite this, the charge against Sutherland hasn’t been dropped, and both were remanded to Belize Central Prison pending sentencing on Friday, March seventh, 2025. Sutherland, who has asthma triggered by confined spaces, broke down in court. The Senior Magistrate explained she couldn’t grant bail but would note Sutherland’s condition for the prison authorities.