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As we told you last night, police recovered one of the six guns stolen from Sarkis Bou-Nahra's Burrell Boom mansion. Police found the Browing 9mm pistol on Ordonez Street in Belize City on January 7 ^th - but it took 12 more days to confirm that it was from the Bou-Nahra estate because the serial number had been filed off. But a diligent Inspector disassembled the weapon to find the serial number on the pieces inside. Today Senior Superintendent Chester Williams told the weapon recovery is due to the Southside Strike Team's hard work:

Sr. Supt. Chester Williams - OC, Eastern Division South

"What you will hear on the news is south side strike team working in conjunction with special branch remove from the street guns, ammunition and drugs. That is on a daily basis and I can say that for last week alone, we removed from the street at least 5 firearms and that effort continues and I think over the weekend, early this week, we removed one of the firearms we believe was stolen from the Bou-Nahra's residence in Burrell Boom. There was no one arrested for it, it was found property. We were lead to it by individuals and so we have that firearm and has been confirmed to be one of those firearms from the Bou-Nahra area so we continue to see how we work to recover the others. If we could remove all of them from the street, it's a plus to us and a plus to the community. The community has a right to be concern when they know that firearms are out there. So everyone we removed from the street is a sense of security for the people on south side Belize City and Belize City on a whole because we know that most of them are in Belize City and if they are to be used, they will be used on the street of Belize City.

No one has been charged for this bust so the gun was labeled as found property.