Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber was in the hotseat today after his Ministerial Toyota Prado was stolen last night and deliberately crashed into the sea. At around 7:30, the 130 thousand dollar SUV cut into the path of oncoming traffic on Marine Parade and turned straight into the only break in the seawall - where it headed straight for the sea. Within minutes, the SUV was submerged and only the top could be seen. Faber says it was stolen - while he was at a function at Old Belize. He had left it parked at a friend's house.
The vehicle was stolen on the southside, and ACP Chester Williams, told us what Faber reported last night:
ACP Chester Williams - OC, Eastern Division South
"Last night after 7pm, the Deputy Prime Minister reporter his vehicle stolen and the vehicle was found plunged in the sea near Marine Parade Boulevard. It was almost totally submerged. It was removed from the water and is currently at the Queen Street Police Station. It will be taken to Belize Diesel and I have communicated with them and they are saying that the vehicle can be brought back, but the sooner the vehicle get there, the better it is. So we are in the process of getting the vehicle from Queen Street to Belize Diesel so that they can commence working on the vehicle, so as not to have the vehicle totally destroyed. The Deputy Prime Minister had parked the vehicle at his girlfriend's house at Mile 4 on George Price Highway and there was where the vehicle was stolen from and after he was notified on the vehicle being found in the Caribbean Sea, that when he actually realized that the vehicle has been stolen."
Daniel Ortiz
"Given what has taken place, it is a line of inquiry that maybe someone who has a personal issue with Minister Faber is involved with the damage of his vehicle at this time?"
ACP Chester Williams - OC, Eastern Division South
"Well yes that's an angle we are looking at. It's a theft of a motor vehicle and the police are investigating. The Commissioner has directed Mr. Linden Flowers senior superintendent to investigate the matter and Mr. Flowers is on top of it and we area assisting him, because after all the vehicle was stolen from our jurisdiction mile 4 is in the south side jurisdiction. So we are assisting to be the best that we can to see how we can get to the bottom of this to be able to ascertain exactly who removed the vehicle from where it was parked and went and plunged it into the Caribbean Sea."
Daniel Ortiz
"It appears though that this was simply for vandalism purposes?"
ACP Chester Williams - OC, Eastern Division South
"It would want to seem so. It would want to appear that way."
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