Belmopan public officer charged over 16.3 pounds of cannabis
Police searching a home at #8 Starkey Hill in Belmopan's Piccini area found 10 parcels totalling 16.3 pounds of cannabis and arrested 45-year-old public officer Andrew Wade. Wade was charged with possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply and remanded to the Belize Central Prison.
🇧🇿 #8 Starkey Hill, Piccini area, Belmopan · Belize
Acting on intelligence, police searched #8 Starkey Hill in the Piccini area of
Belmopan at around 7:45 in the morning.[1]The resident found there was
45-year-old Andrew Wade, the communications officer at the NEMO Belmopan branch.[1]Police formally arrested and charged Wade with possession of controlled
drugs with intent to supply to another.[2]He appeared in Belmopan court and
was remanded because of the quantity of marijuana.[1]He was remanded to the
Belize Central Prison pending further proceedings.[3]
Officers found 10 parcels of cannabis wrapped in transparent plastic in the
home.[1]The cannabis weighed 16.3 pounds (about 7.39 kg).[1]Street sources
described the marijuana as high grade and put its wholesale street value at
upwards of 20 thousand dollars.[2]
The arrest followed the execution of a search warrant at the residence in Wade’s
presence.[3]Asked whether Wade had been working as a trafficker over time,
ASP Stacy Smith said she would not speculate and limited her account to the
search and its discovery.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Charged
1
Cannabis
7.39 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (7.39 kg)
Activity
Possession, Sale
Setting
Home
Charge
possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply to another
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Open questions the AI reported
The area name is spelled Piscini era by Love FM, Piccini in the 26 March 7News account and Picini in the 27 March 7News account; the report uses Piccini.
The cannabis is described as suspected cannabis, and no laboratory confirmation was reported.
The 20-thousand-dollar wholesale value is a street-sources estimate with no currency stated, so no value is recorded in figures.
No plea was reported beyond the charge and remand.
No court outcome beyond the remand to the Belize Central Prison was reported.
Smith said she could not confirm whether earlier searches of Wade had occurred or produced discoveries.
Ten people were jointly charged after a 4 November police raid in San Pedrito, San Pedro Town, and three of them pleaded guilty to firearm, ammunition and cannabis offences, as reported on 6 November 2026. Police later circulated details of eleven people connected to the operation, and no sentences for the three pleas had been given.
Police formally arrested and jointly charged three San Pedrito residents with possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply after finding 278.1 grams of cannabis. One of the three was also charged over 10.7 grams of cocaine found in a search of her person, and all three chose to remain silent.
Police on Caye Caulker stopped a 28-year-old Honduran labourer riding a bicycle in the Bahia area at about 7:30 a.m. on 9 September 2026 and charged him with smoking cannabis in public. He was granted station bail and is due in the San Pedro Magistrate Court on 15 September.
Police in San Pedro arrested and jointly charged three residents after a 21 August 2026 raid in Boca del Rio found 1,312 grams of suspected cannabis alongside cocaine and crack. Each of the three faces three counts of possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply to another.
