Four Charged After Las Flores Drug Bust

Police are crediting fast coordination, and a drone in the air, for helping them capture two suspects in the bold daytime robbery at Western Gas Station in Corozal. And even as that investigation moved quickly, officers in Belmopan were cracking down on the drug trade, launching an intelligence‑led operation in Las Flores that ended with four men facing multiple trafficking charges. Police say the intelligence-led operation was carried out on Girasol Street in the Las Flores area of Belmopan on February eighteenth. Officers reportedly discovered quantities of suspected cocaine and cannabis during the operation, resulting in several charges, including possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply. Here is more from Assistant Superintendent Stacy Smith.

 

ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer

“Following a joint intelligence led anti-drug operation that was conducted on Girasol Street in Las Flores area of Belmopan City on eighteenth February, 2026 at approximately 2:40 PM police. Formerly arrested and charged, jointly charged Kenny Sosa, twenty-three-years-old Deandre Lara, twenty-year-old Paulino Ortiz, thirty-five-years-old, and Milto Ortiz also twenty-five-years-old for two counts of possession of control drugs with intent to supply. The arrest of these individual follows the discovery of one-point-four-zero grams of suspected cocaine, as well as 1one hundred and twenty grams of cannabis, which was found in the open air in opening the immediate vicinity of these four male persons who were congregating in a yard on Garol Street. Milton Orti was additionally charged with possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply after a search of a bag that belonged to him. Resulted in the discovery of two plastic bags containing suspected cocaine, which when weighed total 37.5 grams.”

 

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