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GeneralWeed stash found in flatbed truck at Toll Bridge

BELIZE CITY, Mon. Oct. 19, 2020– The trafficking of narcotics continues even while the global pandemic hammers at an already crippled economy. A 35-year-old truck driver was busted transporting close to 28 pounds of cannabis that was stashed in a compartment on a white Freightliner flatbed truck he was driving.

At about 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 15, 2020, Thomas Williams Bermudez, of Los Lagos, Ladyville, Belize District, pulled up to a vehicle checkpoint near the Toll Bridge in Carmelita Village, Orange Walk District.

During a search of the truck, a disconnected fuel tank mounted under the driver’s side of the truck was searched, and that search resulted in the discovery of a secret compartment containing twenty-two parcels of cannabis.

The packages had a combined weight of 11.916 kilograms (27¼ pounds). Bermudez was arrested and charged for the offense of possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply to another.

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