Six Officers Dismissed In Connection To Drug Plane

In November 2023, six police offers were dismissed from their post in connection with the landing of multiple drug planes in 2021. The accused are, Delwin Casimiro, Nelson Middleton Junior, and Eric Young, all former police officers who were linked to a drug plane landing and were charged criminally and later dismissed from the Belize Police Department. The case also included Manuel Caliz, along with his sister, Epifania Caliz who was dismissed primarily for ammunition charges and her husband Elmer Nah, who was charged jointly for possession of prohibited ammunitions without a gun license. The officers were dismissed in November of 2023 in a letter they all received from the Commissioner of Police Chester Williams ordering them to state a reason why they should not be dismissed. All applicants did so but in response, Williams said the men gave no valid reasons and they were subsequently dismissed. Today, leave was granted for judicial review by a newly appointed judge. The leave for judicial review is for them to now go in search of certiorari as the judge squashed the Compol’s decision to dismiss these officers. Representing the six applicants in court was attorney, Lyndon Jones.  The Attorney General’s Ministry was represented by Samantha Matute, the Assistant Solicitor.