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But while police seem to have a credible case against - what if it is all a setup? That's what his family is alleging. They spoke with Monica Bodden this afternoon:..

Mark Patnett - Father-In-Law of Wade
"I recall the police coming in and claiming that they are searching for weapons. Of course like I said before that I was confident that there was no weapon in my home. I am sure of that. Of course I accepted it and I cooperated one hundred percent with their search. However their search to me was inhumane because these people were taken out the clothing from the bags and throwing it on the floor and they were putting the bags on the bed. So I keep telling them about that and the more I tell them the more they do it. They walk on the clothing and then after they brought dogs who did the same. I mean that's inhumane isn't it?"

Shirley Bahador - Mother-In-Law of Wade
"It was shocking because the way the police came - Broaster, like he practically pushed Yannick into my house. He doesn't even say goodnight, does Yannick lives here or anything. He says to me "you know him?" and I said yes, he is my son-in-law. He doesn't ask if he lives or stay here or anything. He just came and say that he has guns here. I say gun and I started to laugh. He says what happen, don't you watch news and I said no because the babies came and they watch cartoon. We always have on cartoons. So he says that Yannick stole the gun from San Pedro. That was the first time I knew that guns was stolen from San Pedro."

Shirley Patnett - Fiance of Wade
"According to CIB, he said that I personally packed the guns in my suitcase and I carry the suitcase with guns in there, but I didn't do anything like that. I didn't even hold the bag, so if they knew that guns were in the suitcase why not stop us right there and search it? Why wait until we reaches here, spend the whole Friday and then come to do a search? I don't see the sense in that. But we came down because my son and Yannick was sick. From in the week he was complaining about his stomach. He had a stomach problem. He did eat the whole day Friday. As a matter of fact he didn't eat anything on Wednesday and Friday. I was forcing him to eat, so he was really sick."

Shirley Bahador - Mother-In-Law of Wade
"Well I want to start with my house first. To me it was total disrespect because Yannick Wade does not live in my home. I could if they came and barge into my house if he was living here, but he doesn't lives here. They all know that he lives in San Pedro. They should have done that in San Pedro. Why didn't they pick him up in San Pedro? San Pedro have police, they could have had the police pick him up in San Pedro before traveling all this way. Then again they say that he came in because he took the gun. I know that he came in because the baby was sick and he wasn't feeling well."

"The way they trash my house, I don't know how they will feel if it turn back on them one of these days and how they feel to do their own police officer that. I don't think you do any human being that what they did. They actually took the clean clothes out of the suitcases, dump out the clothes on the ground."

"I'll be honest with you. They didn't search my house one time, the first time they search my house it wasn't that bad. I explained to the man, I said these are my clean clothes, these are things that I have for my daughter when she delivers her baby - her things were already washed and prepared - tied up in plastic bags in suitcase. I lose out everything and they search it and replace it back and zip up the bag and thing. They came back again and they dug again without we inside there and they bring Yannick and my husband again and they dumped out everything on the floor. They threw the clothes on the floor and put the suitcase on the bed instead of throwing the suitcase on the bed and throw the suitcase on the ground - they threw the clothes on the ground. Then they make the dog trample all over the things, bite and chew up the things. My coffee creamer that I just bought is chew up and things like that. They just took things and throw and break up, it didn't matter to them. I have a barrel with glass stuff that I don't really used, they threw out the things and broke them up. They don't care. What if you do that to them? What is the prime minister thinking? Who are making these laws? How do they think people are supposed to vote for them with these laws? We supposed to vote for them to have them do this to us? You don't do people things like that. The way they trash my house - it's like there were many guns in here and it's like they were forcing the dogs. Each dog went into my house 3 times - that is 6 times those dogs trample in my clothes, my bed, my mattress and things. It's like the man is forcing the dog to find something. What will they find in there that is not there?"

"This is why people in Belize do what they do because in Belize they take advantage of poor people. They use poor people to say that they are doing thing and that for poor people, but the least chance they get they trample them down to the ground. Just like how they trample my clothes, the same way they trample we human being."

Mark Patnett - Father-In-Law of Wade
"Let me explain something, it was like 2 dozen policemen out here; 4 of them were in the house searching, so most naturally 20 were outside. When they were in there searching, I don't know what they were doing out here. When they said that they began their search they brought us out here, but no one notify us exactly when they found the weapon. When they found the weapon, they send for Scenes of Crime then they told us come, this is what we found."

"Of course I was like what, that surprised me. I didn't expect to see that and that's what transpired there. I can't even explain it, but we know that they are the law, we can only defend yourself by saying what we can say and that's what I am doing now."

Monica Bodden
"You think they could have come on Friday and handle the situation differently?"

Mark Patnett - Father-In-Law of Wade
"Of course, I use to conduct search in my time and we were completely different. We didn't trample upon people private possessions and break stuff that they treasured - that's terrible. They wouldn't like that do be done to them right?"

Shirley Bahador - Mother-In-Law of Wade
"I'll be honest to you. These are not slavery days anymore right? I want you to see the bathroom they have at the cell. They are already treating you like you are a criminal, they haven't found you guilty yet you know, but they are already treating you like you are nothing. Even if you murder somebody, you don't know what is the situation, I don't think you treat nobody that kind of way. The bathrooms are stink and so I look at them and tell them that we can't use that bathroom. They ask if we wanted to eat. How can you eat and drink? All the food stay there and spoil because how will you eat and where will you use bathroom - that bathroom is not in any way for you to eat. Then there in only cement. There is no chair nor bed for you to relax. Even when you go to jail, they treat you better because you have bed to lie down, but there, you don't treat people like that because you don't know if people are guilty. So where are our rights? Where is our humanity?"

Shirley Patnett - Fiance of Wade
"I spent the Friday night in the cell."

Monica Bodden
"Could you even describe that to me?"

Shirley Patnett - Fiance of Wade
"It was rough. I stood most of the night apart from when I was sitting on my mother's lap because I had on this thin dress, like a night gown dress because I was already in my bed. From the night I was experiencing pain, so I was in the bed when they came and when they took us to the station I was locked up in the cell. I told one of the female police office that I couldn't use that bathroom because I don't want to catch any infection. She told me that she did nursing for a while and you cannot catch an infection like that. So I spent the whole night in there, I had back pain, my back is swell, my feet was swollen. The Saturday they took me to the hospital because I began to spot. I was passing blood and so they took me to the hospital and the doctor advice that I should be resting, I should be comfortable. So they took me out of the cell and put me in the room."

Wade is on remand until June 25th and his family told us that Audrey Matura Shepherd is their attorney.