Public Officer Andrew Wade Arrested in Belmopan Drug Bust

In other crime news, a targeted police operation in Belmopan has landed a government employee behind bars and uncovered a sizable drug stash. Police say officers moved in on a home in the Piccini area of the capital and found more than sixteen pounds of cannabis neatly packaged and ready for distribution. The resident, forty‑five‑year‑old public officer Andrew Wade, is now under arrest and facing charges of possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply.

 

ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer

 “Police have formally arrested and charged Andrew Wade, a forty-five-year-old public servant of Belmopan City for the offense of possession of a controlled drugs with intent to supply to another. The arrest follows police’s execution of a search warrant at a residence in the Picini area of Belmopan in the presence of Mr. Wade. This search resulted in the discovery of ten parcels of suspected cannabis, which when weighed amounted to sixteen-point-three pounds.”

 

 Reporter

“Was this in an area or a home that had been on the, that had where arrest or so had been made before or that had been searched previously?”

 

ASP Stacy Smith

“I am not able to confirm that if searches were conducted previously or if it resulted in discoveries previously. But I am grateful to hear you say that police officers often conduct search based on intelligence and surveillance, and not just haphazardly.”

 

Police say the discovery reinforces their strategy of acting on solid intelligence rather than arbitrary searches.

 

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