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Last night, we told you about the 2 Guatemalan men that the BDF exchanged gunfire with in the Cebada area of the Chiqubuil National Park. Well, these men are now facing additional charges more serious than the immigration offence they were remanded for.

56 year-old Luis Dias Alballeros - seen here - was charged along with 51 year-old Francisco Torres Sucup have been additionally charged with 1 count each of keeping an unlicensed firearm, and keeping unlicensed ammunition. The BDF claim that Sucup came charging out of a hut armed with a 9mm pistol and fired at the BDF and FCD rangers. They shot him in the leg to subdue him. His companion, Luis Alballeros rushed out right after with a 12-gauge pump action shotgun, ready to fire on the patrol, but he realized that he was outnumbered, and surrounded, and so he surrendered without incident.

For firing at the BDF soldiers, Francisco Sucup will face the additional charge of aggravated assault, and these men will be taken back to Magistrate's Court for a second arraignment and a further prison remand date.

As we told you, the BDF and FCD went on foot patrol inside the Chiquibul to destroy several marijuana plantations they had sighted on a previous fly-over mission. They destroyed two fields, and while attempting to destroy a third they encountered the 2 men about 600 meters inside Belizean territory.

After they got the situation under control, the soldiers and rangers had to carry Sucup and escorted Alballeros out of the area on a 2 day hike.