Two Men Charged for the Murders of Belmopan Cab Drivers

Tonight, a pair of twenty-one-year-old men, Christopher Alexander Smith Junior, a construction worker from Linda Vista, and Karl Lindo, an unemployed resident of Mile 15 Hattieville/Boom Road, has been arraigned for the double murder of two cousins in Hattieville. The duo appeared unrepresented before the Magistrate’s Court where they were jointly charged with two counts of murder for the November twenty-seventh, 2024, killings of Marvin Cante and Juan Carlos Raymundo. Due to the severity of the offenses, the magistrate explained that no plea would be taken, and bail could not be granted. They were remanded to the Belize Central Prison until February twelfth, 2025. Last Wednesday, around 3:00 p.m., police received information about two bodies suspected to be buried in a shallow grave in the American New Site area of Hattieville Village. Officers proceeded to the location and discovered a shallow grave covered in red clay. The next morning, police returned with a Scenes of Crime Technician, and they unearthed the dismembered bodies of two Hispanic men, believed to be the missing cousins, Marvin Cante and Juan Carlos Raymundo. The remains have been taken to the NFSS for a post-mortem examination.