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Police Make Arrest For Friday Morning Murder
posted (December 1, 2014)
And to close out the panorama of death,we go back to Friday morning, when 35 year-old Emmerson Arnold, relative to reputed George Street affiliate Carlos "Zimbab" Abraham, was killed on Gibnut Street in Belize city.

After 2 days of investigation, police are accusing 19 year-old Jason Sanchez of pulling off the murder. Tonight, he's at the Belize Central Prison.

As we told you in our last newscast, the execution happened at around 6:45 a.m. while Arnold was heading to work at Belize Water Services. He was riding his bike when he was shot 7 times in the back by a man on bicycle wearing a hoodie.

Police were in the area, responded immediately and caught SANCHEZ shortly after. He goes by the nickname "Jungle Rat" and was arraigned today before Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith. He was remanded until February 27.

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