Police Raided Doris Grant’s Home; Was it Connected to Scam Allegations?  

She made headlines on Monday after being arraigned on forty counts of acquiring property by deception and theft to the tune of one hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars. As we reported, Belize City resident, Doris Grant, maintains her innocence and is out on fifty-thousand dollars bail. Well, Grant is back in the news tonight. She says that police raided her property on Tuesday evening in Gardenia Village. According to Grant, at least six police mobiles filled with officers entered her farm, destroyed the locks on her doors and ransacked the house. She says that the place is hardly ever used, as she spends most of her time at her Belize City residence. Tonight, she is questioning why the authorities searched her home and what it is that they were looking for. We visited the property today where we spoke with Grant.

 

Doris Grant, Homeowner

“About three thirty, four I received a call that about five to six trucks were at my premise here at my farm and the person said she was not sure if it was police but they all had on black clothes. She said she would take the video when the trucks were coming out to certify that it was police, but she did come out of her house and video that it was police at the premises. As soon as she told me they had left I came here at the house and I notice the camera was put towards the house so it would not catch anything else because it was not visible to see them. When I went to the front of the door, I saw they burglarized the house because they knocked down the locks and I went in saw those were knocked down. When I went in the house I saw they had searched the house.”

 

Paul Lopez

“Are you aware of what was being sought by these law enforcement officers in your home or on your property?”

Doris Grant

“Well, I would say this, I was detained from Wednesday until Monday morning and if they wanted to search my house, they could have brought me here with a paper saying they wanted to search my house and I would have gotten the key and opened the house. They know me very well so they can’t say I was hiding, or they couldn’t find me. And whole of yesterday I was at my house in Belize City. This is wrong and totally unfair cause I don’t know what they have done inside, if they have planted any gun or if they put in my house. I don’t feel safe at my farm anymore because I don’t know what they did here. This is wrong. This is like you get in somebody’s house and thief.”