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While Murder Suspect At Large, Family Home On Fire
posted (July 5, 2017)

Now we have been following this case closely and there is nothing that Markey Mendez’s family and friends wanted more than for Erwin Santos to be captured. As you can recall, the villagers expressed their outrage at Santos’ initial release by starting up a tyre fire in the village. Well, early this morning around 5:30, hours before Santos was captured, his home was burnt down. Now it is alleged that frustrated villagers lit his house on fire but today police told us that they are still waiting for the fire department’s report.

Sr. Sup. Howell Gillett- O. C. Belmopan 
“We got the call sometime around 5:30 this morning. The house belonged to the family of Mister Erwin Santos. It was completely destroyed. It’s a, I believe, 36 by 35 wooden structure; it was totally destroyed by fire. It’s a new and young investigation; we have to do a lot of work before we can make a determination as to what caused the fire. Yes, there is speculation that it is retaliation from community members but we cannot say that until we have total proof of that. And one of those proofs that we are looking for is the report from the fire service to determine what might have caused the fire.â€￾

Police didn’t want to say if Santos was inside at the time of the fire but according to villagers no one was inside the home.

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