54 g of buried cannabis seized from Orange Walk home; 60-year-old man charged
Police executing a search warrant in San Jose Nuevo Palmar Village found 54 grams of suspected cannabis buried near a home on Corozo Road and took the 60-year-old resident into custody. He was formally charged with possession of controlled drugs.
🇧🇿 San Jose Nuevo Palmar Village, Orange Walk District, Belize
Arrested
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Charged
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Cannabis
54 g
Police executed a search warrant at a home on Corozo Road in San Jose Nuevo
Palmar Village, Orange Walk District, shortly after 6:00 a.m. on Friday morning.[1]Officers found four plastic bags containing 26 smaller transparent bags
with a green leafy substance suspected to be cannabis, buried about three inches
underground roughly ten feet from the rear of the house.[1]
The 60-year-old resident was informed of the discovery, cautioned, and taken to
the Orange Walk Police Station along with the suspected drugs.[1]At the
station the substance was weighed and amounted to 54 grams, and the exhibits
were sealed and labeled; the resident reportedly declined to sign the label.[1]
He was formally arrested and charged with possession of controlled drugs, and
the matter is expected to proceed through the court process.[1]
The article gives the operation day only as 'Friday morning'; 13 February 2026, the Friday before the 15 February publication, is used as the incident date.
The substance was described only as suspected cannabis; no laboratory confirmation was reported.
The 54 g weight is the station weighing of the 26 small bags of green leafy material, not a value estimate, and no street value was published.
No court date, plea or sentence was reported; the matter was said to be expected to proceed through the court process.
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