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Rawell's Woes Mounting
posted (July 23, 2013)
Vice President of the Football Federation of Belize Rawel Pelayo remains held at a detention facility in New York – and now we've learned that he is under grand jury indictment for narcotics smuggling. The allegation is that in October 2010 up to May 2011 Pelayo and other parties smuggled drugs into the US.

Pelayo has retained an attorney in the US. Notably, he was granted a US Visa to follow the Belize Team in its Gold Cup Quest. After a long wait – he was granted the visa, but we now know that was only to get him back into the US where an indictment – dated back to April fo 2012 was waiting.

Pelayo was picked up on arrival in Houston on July 8th.

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