It's been 8 days since Lake I resident, Mark Pollard, went missing after an early morning run. Pollard, who is well known in his community and throughout Belize City for his involvement in carnival activities and sports, went for a routine run to the Haulover Creek Bridge at around 5 o'clock on Monday morning, but never returned home.
This security footage, taken from the Buca Shell Gas Station at Mile 2 on the Philip Goldson Highway, shows him walking past the gas station in a pair of orange shorts at 5:27 AM. He was northbound, presumably to the Haulover Bridge.
That is the last record of him alive - and his family is asking anyone who may have been on the road at that time, or may have seen him to please help them with information.
Today, we found his family and close in multiple search parties along the northern highway looking for clues. We asked them how the search has been going…
Joe Nunez, Close Friend
"So far this morning we combed the area from 8-14 miles on the Western Highway. Now we are on the Northern Highway combing from BelCan Bridge all the way up to Haulover Bridge. Right now we have members of the police department, GSU, Strike Team and ADU and the Coast Guard as we speak on Haulover Creek as well."
Reporter
"So we know that these agencies they are looking at all the possibilities and using all the resources that they have to try and locate Mr. Pollard. You told us something about them using security footage from establishments in the area."
Joe Nunez, Close Friend
"So far the police have combed the area all the way up to Belama itself, but so far they have made mention to us that they have reviewed one footage from A and R where they saw Mr. Pollard actually running morning at 5:10am."
Sandra Mahler, President - Belize Carnival Assoc.
"Because of the type of person that Mark is or he is around us, I don't believe that somebody did something bad to him. I believe he was knocked down and they left him there or they threw him somewhere, because they saw that they knocked him down. That's what I am trying to hope that that happened, because Mark for the person that we know Mark to be, he doesn't have enemies. Mark is a very friendly, strict person at his work, but friendly. He is somebody that you can depend on on whatever task you give him to do. You could depend on him. He is a senior officer with the Belize Carnival Association and he has held that post for over 10 years."
"We have individuals who have come out who are not directly family, but close friends of Mark who knows Mark very well. So I think with all of us coming together it tells us, it tells the community who Mark is. Mark is not a bad person. Mark is not somebody who would come and take advantage of you or somebody, but that is how we know Mark. At the Belize Carnival Association, that is the Mark we know and that is why we are out here every day doing this search so that we could find him dead or alive - bring him home. So that's what we are going to continue to do."
Police are planning to look at security footage from other businesses in the area Pollard was known to run through in order to tighten their search.
Again if you saw Pollard around this time in this general area please call the family at 620 8107 or 6012014.
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