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Police Officer Caught With Marijuana In Santa Elena
posted (August 9, 2013)
Police Constable Darrell Swazo is assigned to the DPP's office at the Case Care Unit – where his job is basically to find witnesses.

But tonight, he finds himself behind bars facing drug trafficking charges. It's a most unexpected turn after he left the DPP's office this morning on bicycle with another police officer to go looking for a witness – only to be caught five hours later in a car in Cayo with two kilos of marijuana.

He and another man were in a Mitsubishi Eclipse this afternoon at 2:45 when they were stopped at a police checkpoint in Santa Elena.

Police searched the car and found the four and a half pounds in the back of the car. Officer in Chareg of the Cayo District, Superintendent Ralph Moody could not provide much details except to say that Swazo has been arrested and charged for drug trafficking.

DPP Cheryl Lynn Vidal told us that her office is surprised and shocked at the report because the last communication she got was that he was in Belize City looking for a witness for a Crown Counsel so it came as a huge surprise to everyone in the office that he was caught in Cayo in that situation. The DPP says she ahs spoken to the head of the prosecution branch to make sure that no one form her office is involved in the prosecution of the case.

Swazo started working in the DPP's office late last year; he formerly worked at the Supreme Court where he was also assigned to find witnesses.

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