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Guatemalan Pleads Guilty to Crystal Meth
posted (October 19, 2012)
41 year old Guatemalan Eric Granados will spend his first night in jail tonight after he pleaded guilty to trafficking Crystal Meth today.

Granados took the plea in San Ignacio Magistrate's court. He was sentenced to three years in prison and fined one hundred thousand dollars. And if he can't pay the fine, he'll serve another 2 years in prison.

He took the plea so that his 22 year old son, Guillermo Granados could go free. Charges against him were dropped and he was released. Police also released the Volvo car to the younger Granados - as it is registered in his name.

As we reported, on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 the ADU and the k-9 Unit set up a checkpoint near the Belize - Guatemala border. They intercepted the car coming into Belize. A search by the K-9 unit inside the door panels turned up four parcels of Crystal Meth - weighing just under 11 pounds with a street value of a quarter million Belize dollars.

There is no known market for the highly addictive drug in Belize - so it is believed they were only passing through Belize possibly on their way to Mexico.

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