As we told you yesterday, the official police version is that last Friday night, he was in their custody as the main suspect in the burglary of an elderly Canadian couple from the Plantation Area on the peninsula which happened on Thursday. Rodriguez was one of the 2 men who was reportedly spotted in the couple's stolen vehicle which turned up in Corozal, some 200 miles away.

Placencia police say that he offered to cooperate with them on Friday night at around 10 p.m. to take them to where some of the couple's stolen items were, and while in the pan of the police mobile, he jumped out of the moving vehicle and ran through a bushy area where he fell with his hands handcuffed behind his back, and he drowned.

As we told you, Rodriguez's family refuses to believe that he drowned; they think that he was killed by police while he was in their custody, and that the officers who did it are trying to cover it up. Their position is bolstered by the report from Dr. Mario Estradabran who certified that Rodriguez died from inhalation of beach sand and trauma wounds were found on his chest, indicating that he had been beaten. The family reasons that this suggests his head was held down in the sand and that he was suffocated by the officers who had him in their custody.

Tonight, 7News spoke with Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie, who told us that the progress of the criminal investigation into Rodriguez's death is awaiting the directives from DPP Vidal. We spoke to her this evening, and she told us that she has been in contact with the lead investigator, and she will meet with him tomorrow, and to discuss the case.