The market for marijuana in Belize is almost insatiable, and one of the most sought after products is the weed that comes from Mexico known as Oaxaca.
That's what customs at the northern border may have gotten yesterday when they busted a Chrysler van that was coming over from the Mexican side.
Around 5:30, a rented van coming over from Mexico driven by Derrick Thompson pulled up at the border. 3 passengers went through the passenger control, and when the vehicle got to the checkpoint Thompson said they had nothing to declare. A search was conducted and in a compartment on the floor of the van, customs found (3) parcels of suspected cannabis weighing 1.1 kilos, .97 kilos and 1 kilo. That's a total of three kilos or 6.7 pounds, with a street value of about ten thousand Belize dollars on the streets.
32-year-old Derrick Thompson, 36-year-old Keisha Garnett, 25-year-old James Welch and 36-year-old Jason Brown all residents of Belize City have since been detained pending charges.
And that's not the only weed buts Customs in the north made this week. On Tuesday, while making routine checks at the Ranchito Municipal Airstrip, they found a kit bag at the Tropic Air cargo section. The cargo handlers told them someone dropped it there and said he was coming back to check it in. Customs searched the bag and found 2 packages of marijuana inside. They weighed it and it came up to 2 kilos which was handed over to police.
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