Tonight two teenagers are still missing after 72 hours.
They are Edwardo Alamilla and Charlie Espat. Both young men are 17 years old and have been missing since Saturday. According to Alamilla's mother, she last heard from her son on Saturday morning around 7:30 when he called and asked if she can buy him a boat ticket to return home to San Pedro. She did, but her son never made it on the boat.
Her nephew Charlie Espat was along with her son and he is also missing. Alamilla's mother told us that both her son and nephew left San Ignacio on Saturday and headed to Belize City in a green car that had on an American license plate. A friend of the boys told the devastated mother that the two mentioned to him that they were going to visit a friend on George Street. Since then no one have seen neither boys nor the vehicle.
Carmita Gonzales Espat, mother/aunt of missing boys
"We tried to contact through the phone but they don't answer their phone from Saturday. The last time I heard from him was 7:30 the morning when he asks me to pay his passage from San Pedro for him to take the boat in Belize City at San Pedro Belize Express. I paid it and now he does not reach home. I don't know anything about it. I don't know anything about the vehicle. I just want to know if he is ok and for him to contact his mother or his grandmother because we worry about him. Or my nephew to contact his mother, we just want to know about them. Whoever sees them just call us or tell us because I am worrying about my son."
Monica Bodden
"When you tried calling his number, does it ring or go straight to voicemail?"
Carmita Gonzales Espat
"It goes straight to voicemail. My nephew had two numbers; first a girl answered and she said that she bought the chip two weeks ago and the second number, no one answered. It rang and then went straight to voicemail."
Monica Bodden
"Is this the first time that you son has been gone for this long without informing you?"
Carmita Gonzales Espat
"This is the first time. He informed me that he was going to Benque on the 24th May. He went to Benque with my sister in law Priscilla Espat and on the 2nd June he move from Benque to come to Belize City and then to San Pedro. He asks me to pay his passage and I did. Up to today he does not reach home yet. We tried to contact him but we get no answer."
Monica Bodden
"My understanding is that you were told that he went to visit a friend in Belize City?"
Carmita Gonzales Espat
"Yes at George Street. That is the only thing that I know because that's what my nephew told me that he (my son) is supposed to go to George Street to visit a friend. But today we don't know anything. We don't know if he went to George Street."
"The thing is that they were travelling in a green vehicle that has Texas license plates. We don't hear anything from them or the vehicle."
Monica Bodden
"What kind of vehicle?"
Carmita Gonzales Espat
"It's a Suzuki and it has two flame stickers on the side of it."
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