Electrician charged after 62.3g cannabis found in Orange Walk raid
Police raided Hubert Edgar August's home on Rio Grande Street in Orange Walk Town on 4 November 2026, finding 16.1 grams of suspected cannabis in his pocket and 46.2 grams more outside the fence. August was charged the same day for the cannabis in his pocket, while the outside finds were logged as found property.
Hubert Edgar August is a 35-year-old Orange Walk Town electrician who was
charged with possession of controlled drugs after a police raid on his home.[1][2]August, of Rio Grande Street, was charged after police allegedly found 16.1
grams of suspected cannabis in his pocket.[1]August was formally charged the
same day for the cannabis found in his pocket and remained silent when
cautioned.[1]
Officers from the Trial Farm Sub Station and the San Roman Joint Patrol Team
executed a search warrant at the residence at around 11:00am on Wednesday,
November 4.[1][2]A woman who lives at the house was seated in the yard and was
shown the warrant.[1]Inside the house, officers found August sitting on a
couch in the living room.[1]A search of his right pocket turned up six small
plastic bags containing suspected cannabis.[1]Nothing else illegal was found
inside the house.[1]
Along the outside edge of the fence under a cement block, officers found a
plastic bag with 12.2 grams of an off-white substance suspected to be crack
cocaine.[1][2]In a tied yellow bag lodged in trees about a foot above the fence,
officers found nine wrapped bags of suspected cannabis weighing 46.2 grams.[1][2]The drugs found outside the fence were recorded as found property.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only one accessible account of this raid was found after searching for the suspect's name, so no second outlet could confirm or add details.
The 16.1 grams and 46.2 grams are police-reported weights of suspected cannabis, with no laboratory confirmation published.
The 46.2 grams found outside the fence were recorded as found property and were not part of the charge against August; the reported cannabis total combines both finds.
The 12.2 grams of suspected crack cocaine are excluded from cannabis figures as a separately reported non-cannabis substance.
No arrest separate from the same-day charge was reported.
The new account omits the suspect's name and the 16.1-gram pocket quantity, so it does not contradict the existing figures for the charge.
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.
Orlando Anthony Fisher, 65, pleaded guilty to possession of 61 grams of cannabis with intent to supply in Belize City. The magistrate sentenced him to three months in prison, his sixth drug conviction after five previous drug offenses.
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 searching a Handyside Street home in Belize City on March 24, 2026 found 17 pounds (about 7.7 kg) of cannabis, a .22 revolver and three rounds of ammunition, and detained the two occupants. Tamika Jenna Smith, 29, and Michael Shawn Whylie, 31, pleaded not guilty to drug and firearm charges and were remanded to prison until May 12.
