Last night, police got a report that a town taxi man had fired his licensed pistol in front of a bar. License or not, that is an offence, and police went to search his home in the San Pedrito area. They found 30 year old Juan Menjivar and a 15 year old male relative in the house and recovered the loaded Sig Sauer pistol without incident. But a search of the premises then turned up more than $10,000.00 in US and Belize currency, (8) liters of Hennessy and 3 brown parcels containing 1.4 kilos - or about three pounds of weed.

Both Menjivar and the 15-year-old were arrested and charged for Drug Trafficking while Menjivar was additionally charged with Discharging a Firearm in Public, Uncustomed Goods and for the possession of over $10,000 dollars believed to be the proceeds of Drug Trafficking.