BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 24, 2022– At around 6:35 p.m., on Saturday, January 22, police were pursuing a male person on McKenzie Lane, when that male entered a fenced yard. While waiting for reinforcement, the officers saw another male person leaving the yard armed with what appeared to be a firearm. They then ordered that individual, later identified as Clifford Russell Anderson, 32, to place the firearm on the ground. The officers then inspected the weapon and discovered that the firearm was a .38 Smith and Wesson, which contained (6) live rounds of ammunition. Andersen was arrested and charged for keeping unlicensed firearms and ammunition.

Another gun was removed off the streets of Belize City over the weekend. Officers were conducting a mobile patrol at about 7:50 p.m., in the North Creek area when they saw Isaiah Jeremiah Willacey, 26, and decided to perform a search on him. The officers discovered that Willacey was carrying a .45 pistol with five live .45 rounds of ammunition.

Willacey, like Anderson, was arrested and charged.

“We are adamant on stop and search. Our officers will continue to do it, and hopefully our efforts will quibble the streets a little when it comes to these illegal firearms,” mentioned ASP Yearwood, the Police Department’s Communications Director, when he spoke to reporters at a recent police briefing.

“I am happy to say over the weekend, we had three separate instances where police’s stop and search led to the detention and arrest of three separate individuals with loaded firearms. These are persons who we believed were going to carry out murders, but they were interrupted by the police … ,” said Commissioner of Police Chester Williams on the firearms that were found over the weekend.