Well, one officer who was not implicated in the landing of the plane, but named in a wider investigation, was acquitted late yesterday.

Corporal Vidal Cahun was released from the charges of keeping an unlicensed firearm and unlicensed ammunition when his trial ended before the Stann Creek Magistrate, Edd P. Usher.

Corporal Cahun was accused of carrying and using a 9mm pistol with 10 live rounds for which the police department did not give him a license.

In his trial, the police officer who manages the firearms database at the police headquarters in Belmopan, testified for the prosecution saying that Cahun had no license for the pistol he was using.

According to the database manager, this weapon, which he had, was never assigned to him when he was transferred from the Corozal Police formation to Independence police. The officer contended that by law, this weapon was undocumented, and as such, this made it illegal for Cahun to have it.

Cahun, who was represented by attorney Dickey Bradley, was able to prove with police diary records that he followed procedure and signed the weapon out and in on each and every day that he was on duty at the Independence Police Station.

He was also able to show that when he was a part of the Corozal Police formation, the very same weapon that was now being branded as unlicensed, was issued to him. He provided records of that weapon in his time at Corozal, which effectively proved that the weapon belonged to the police department.

Presented with this evidence, Magistrate Usher found him not guilty of the charge, and he walked out of court a free man.