A cell phone video posted on YouTube shows Corozal police filling up their patrol pickup with fuel in Santa Clara village. The video claims that the gas is contraband. If true, that would seem to be a super-embarrassment for police, but the police press office, coolly put out a release today explaining the circumstance.
The release says, quote, "On May 6th at…2pm, Corozal police mobile unit while in the execution of a Supreme Court Order in the village of Santa Clara, Corozal in the recovery of a tractor that was in dispute between members of (a) family, ran out of fuel. The police were offered assistance and were refueled by a member of the family with just enough to make it to an official Service Station. A video is now being shown on the internet initiated by an aggrieved family member from whom the tractor was recovered… showing the police mobile being refueled by…a member of the family who is now in the possession of the tractor…."
The release adds,
Further Inquiries are being made as to the legitimacy of the origin of the fuel used to assist the police." End quote.
It is not clear how they'll inquire about the legitimacy of the fuel which was poured into the mobile – since that has already been burned.
Speaking very generally, it is widespread practice in Corozal and Orange Walk Districts to purchase cheap fuel in bulk form Mexico, smuggle it into Belize, and then retail it for below the local pump price.
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