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Firearm Found Close to Police Station
posted (January 4, 2016)
Orange Walk Police also found a firearm, right inside their neighborhood. In fact it was only a few hundred yards from the police station. Acting on street information, police responded to an area in front of the Hunter Library in Orange Walk. Here's what they found.

ASP Selwyn Tillett - O. C. Orange Walk Police
"On the 3rd January at about 4p.m. the Orange Walk Quick Response Team conducted a search of an empty lot located on Hospital Crescent close to the Sandy Hunter Library where upon searching under a log they found a point thirty-two caliber pistol bearing serial number P055700 with an empty magazine. It was wrapped in a black plastic. The firearm was taken to the Orange Walk Police Station where it was deposited as found property."

Reporter
"Do you guys believe that it was placed there to retrieve later to commit a crime?"

ASP Selwyn Tillett - O. C. Orange Walk Police
"It was placed there and due to good communication with the community, they saw it and they called the police."

No one was around when the firearm was found and so the weapon was labeled as found property.

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