Relatives of Bree Arthurs Say Authorities Have Not Responded

It has been almost fifty days since Deborah “Bree” Arthurs vanished without a trace, and tonight, frustration from her family is boiling over publicly. In a Facebook post, a relative shared an email sent on April twenty-seventh to Minister of Home Affairs Oscar Mira and the Commissioner of Police, pleading for answers. She says, to date, there has been no response. At the center of the family’s concerns is a report that Arthurs was last seen getting into a silver Chevy Equinox with heavily tinted windows. They are now asking who rented the vehicle, who was driving it, and where she may have been taken. The post does not stop there. The family member also speaks to what she calls a broader failure, pointing to a pattern of crime and corruption where, in her words, criminals operate with confidence, knowing they are untouchable. She says a letter has been submitted to Washington DC headquarters for international crime, as well as a Texas senator, to draw attention to the case and what the family believes is a pattern of criminals escaping justice while innocent lives continue to be lost. Arthurs, a call center employee and mother of one, was last seen on March twenty-seventh after traveling to Belize City to drop off her son at the water taxi terminal before returning to Belmopan. She never made it home.

 

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