In the municipality of Cardenas in Quintana Roo, Mexico, Belizean national Luis Herlindo Leyva was arrested by Mexican police after allegedly trafficking 35 packages of marijuana.[1] The second account places the bust in the city of Lazaro Cardenas in the state of Quintana Roo and describes Leyva as a well-known Belizean drug dealer.[2] Leyva was arrested a few minutes after he allegedly sold two small plastic bags of weed to Mexican national Eulogio Coba Cupul in the Colony of Miguel Borge Martin.[1] The second account likewise says Leyva was arrested just minutes after selling two bags of marijuana to Eulogio Coba Cupul.[2]
Leyva was allegedly found with a shipment of 35 bags of marijuana, blood pressure pills, packaging bags, paper to produce cigarettes, a cell phone and cash.[1] The second account lists the same seizure as 35 bags of marijuana, pressure pills, packaging bags, cigarette wrapping paper, a cell phone and an undisclosed amount of cash.[2] Cupul told police he was only a user, not a trafficker, and that he had bought each plastic bag of marijuana for 50 pesos from Leyva.[1]
Leyva had so far been dealt with only by the local jurisdiction’s Attorney General Ministry.[1] He was expected to be brought before the federal jurisdiction in Cancun on the drug trafficking charge.[1] The second account says Leyva had a prior Mexican arrest record for drug peddling and had served a short sentence before, and that this time he was headed for the federal prison in Cancun.[2] Leyva, who is married to a Mexican national, was known locally in Mexico as “The Belizean”.[1]
