Third Suspect Arrested in Double Murder

Tonight, a third suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with the double murder of two Belmopan taxi drivers who went missing at the end of November. Their bodies were later discovered in a shallow grave in the Hattieville area. Twenty-year-old Ronald Steadman Frazer, a laborer from Ontario Village in the Cayo District, has been remanded to prison. He joins two other suspects already charged with the murders of cousins Marvin Cante and Juan Raymundo. Frazer, who was arrested on Thursday, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court this morning, facing two counts of murder. Unrepresented, he stood before a Senior Magistrate in Court #2, where he was formally charged with the murders of thirty-seven-year-old Marvin Elisandro Cante and thirty-two-year-old Juan Carlos Raymundo. Due to the severity of the charges, bail was denied, and Frazer was remanded to the Belize Central Prison until February twelfth, 2025. Frazer now joins Alexander Smith Jr., a construction worker, and Carl Lindo, an unemployed resident of Mile 15 Hattieville/Boom Road, both twenty-one years old. Smith Junior and Lindo were arraigned on December sixteenth on the same charges and are also being held at the Belize Central Prison. The trio is scheduled to appear in court together for the first time on February twelfth, 2025.