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Overnight on Wednesday, a suspected drug plane landed in the Monkey River area. An operation team, headed by the Joint Intelligence Operating Centre, had been alerted of the aircraft en route from South America to this area and officers were deployed to prevent and possibly intercept its landing in Belize. Authorities, however, arrived on the scene to discover the charred remains of a twin-engine aircraft—there were no persons in site and the cargo was missing; what was left behind was a red bag containing a cache of high powered cartridges and ammunition, including eleven magazines, nine of which were loaded with point two-three-three ammunition; the other two were empty. They also observed several gallons along the edge of the airstrip. When News Five caught up with Commissioner of Police Chester Williams today, he says that the plane landed in proximity to a clandestine strip that had been destroyed by law enforcement authorities a while back to prevent illegal landings.
