Mother and 17-year-old son arrested over cannabis on a verandah roof in San Jose Village
Police searching a home in San Jose Village, Orange Walk District, on September 25, 2026 arrested a 40-year-old woman and her 17-year-old son after allegedly finding a bag of suspected cannabis on the verandah's zinc roof. Nothing was found inside the house, and police gave no weight for the cannabis.
🇧🇿 San Jose Village, Orange Walk District · Belize
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A 40-year-old woman and her 17-year-old son were arrested after police allegedly
found suspected cannabis on the roof of their verandah at their home in San Jose
Village, Orange Walk District.[1]The two lived in San Jose Village in Orange
Walk District; police described the woman as a domestic and her son as a
student.[2]
The Quick Response Team and Special Branch officers executed a search warrant
for illegal drugs at the family’s home between 6:55pm and 7:30pm on Friday,
September 25.[1]When asked whether she had anything illegal to declare, the
woman reportedly answered, “No sir.”[1]Nothing illegal was found inside the
house.[1]
On top of the zinc covering the verandah, officers allegedly found a clear
plastic bag containing suspected cannabis.[1]Both mother and son were
arrested for possession of controlled drugs and taken to the Orange Walk Police
Station, where the suspected cannabis was weighed and sealed in their presence.[2]
A second Breaking Belize News account reports that a search of the teenager’s
front trouser pocket found a clear plastic bag with small foil parcels of
suspected crack cocaine, counted at the station as 28 parcels weighing 3.99
grams.[3]That account gives the searching team as Orange Walk Special Branch,
GI3 and the Quick Response Team, and puts the cannabis find on the rooftop.[3]
Photos and video
Page image published with the report on the search of the San Jose Village home and the bag of suspected cannabis found on the verandah roof. Uncredited screenshot.Photo details
No weight for the suspected cannabis was published in any of the accounts.
The substance was described as suspected cannabis with no laboratory confirmation reported.
Breaking Belize News published two accounts of the same search; one describes only the cannabis find and the other also reports suspected crack cocaine in the teenager's pocket, so the crack is excluded from the cannabis figures.
It is not stated whether either person was formally charged, and no court date or outcome is reported.
The teenager is a minor, so no names are recorded; neither account names the mother.
The page photograph is uncredited and its caption only repeats the headline, so it cannot be confirmed to show the find.
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 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.
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 searching a home in Lords Bank Village, Belize District, on the morning of 19 December 2018 found one suspected cannabis plant and a .22 handgun. Edward Ferguson and Erwin Lanza, who were present, were arrested and charged with cultivating cannabis and keeping a firearm without a licence.
