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Police Name Teakettle Suspect
posted (June 30, 2017)
And while the PM says he will press police to do more - they say they are investigating the killing of Teakettle resident Markey Mendez very aggressively.

Police are trying to find 24 year old Erwin Santos for questioning in connection with this murder.

Police say Santos is in hiding right now and they are doing all they can to locate him. Markey Mendez had been missing for 5 days and his body was found on Monday night around 6:00 in a creek about a 45 minute walk beyond the old Warrie Head Bridge. His body was tangled in a tree branch that had fallen in the creek. His entire upper body was decomposed and the only way his father could have known it was him was from his Nike tennis and his tattoos on his foot. Police say they are not sure if Mendez was killed behind the Warrie Head Bridge or if he was dumped there after being killed somewhere else. They are also still waiting for test results from the bloody clothes the residents found at the cemetery. So police have a few elements to work with in this case but they need Santos for questioning. We will keep following this case. Just to note, the Santos brothers are well known to the police and residents say they have been terrorizing the communities in the West. One of the brothers, Shaylon Santos was charged in connection with the March killing of 18 year old Kerona Ara. Her body was also burnt and thrown at the dumpsite, 4 miles outside of Belmopan. And the other brother Shemar Santos was charged in connection to the murder of 17 year old Ernesto Wiltshire.

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