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The November find by police included 7 guns, 12 magazines and 144 bullets, the vehicles, as well as cocaine and cannabis. But he is only charged for one of the guns, while his vehicle a blue Chevy Colorado pickup was also impounded. But while he is on trial, that same pickup has been acquired by police. Sadivar says Mendez's family - who follow the news in Belize saw it transporting dead bodies! He told us why it has caused dismay:..

Arthur Saldivar
"My client's father called me to tell me that they were looking at the news in Belize. They were surprise to see a truck that they had bought for their son being loaded up with bodies of deceased persons. The Blue Chevrolet Colorado Truck - when I check it out and saw that it was the vehicle it basically brought home to me the whole fear that myself and my co-counsel have in this entire matter that some way somehow the government has taken the position that they are going to push this in a particular direction. Normally when it comes to personal property those things are not dealt with unless there is some connection with the offences that the person accused is allege to have done. In this particular instance that vehicle had nothing in it - nothing whatsoever. It is his property, his name is on the title but there was no weapons found in that vehicle, there was no drugs found in that vehicle - nothing incriminating was in that vehicle and the disclosure as I have shown you will bear that out. So until the case is concluded I don't see what authority the government would have had to press into employment that vehicle for the transportation of dead bodies to make it into a Hearst. It is as if he is guilty until proven innocent because his actual property now has been confiscated and expropriated by the government which should not happen under the presumption of innocence. "

Saldivar says if his client is exonerated, he will not want back possession of that truck - which was only two weeks old when it was confiscated.