And, while police are looking for these two men, they are also looking for the person who fired a shotgun blast at their Arenal Police Station a few weeks ago.
Viewers will remember that Arenal is famous for the fact that half of the village being in Belize and half being in Guatemala. The suspicion that the gunshot was fired as some protest for the outcome of the OAS investigation which vindicated Belizean lawmen in the fatal shooting of 13 year-old Julio Ruano.
Today, the police commissioner told the media that there is no evidence at this time to support that suspicion:
Allen Whylie - Commissioner of Police
"Indeed a report has been received that whilst the officers were there they heard the loud sound of a gunshot and they realised that the building had been shot because pellets came into the building. The matter was reported, the scenes of crime went out there, the investigators went out there and that is still active investigation. While we suspect that the shot could have originated from across the border we have not yet confirmed in terms of the identity of who may have done that."
Reporter
"Since you have not discovered who did it, no suspicion because this happened of course right around the time when Guatemala rejected the findings of the report into the death of the minor."
Allen Whylie - Commissioner of Police
"Well I don't know if it's associated or connected with that. We suspect that the shots came from across but as I said we cannot confirm at this because we don't have a suspect."
Later on in the news, we’ll have a little more from the Commissioner as he discusses where he will place the 166 police recruits who passed out today.
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