Police detained ten people after searching a two-storey blue wooden house in the San Pedrito area of San Pedro Town on the morning of 4 November 2026.[1][2] The detained group comprised nine men aged 18 to 57 and a 53-year-old woman, who were taken to the San Pedro Police Station.[1] No charges had been announced against the ten detainees.[1] The Anti Narcotics Unit and K9 Unit executed two search warrants at the house at around 7:30am on Wednesday, November 4.[1]
Officers found nothing downstairs, but with K9 Axel they were alerted to a wooden clothes shelf in the upstairs bathroom area between a plastic shower and a washing machine.[1] Behind that shelf police found two bags of suspected cannabis whose weight was not given.[1] In the same hiding place police found a small black box holding nine bags of suspected cocaine weighing 259 grams.[1] Officers found a vacuum sealed bag of suspected cannabis weighing 332 grams inside a school bag hidden in the ceiling.[1] With that bag police found a Ziploc bag holding a magazine and 34 rounds of 9mm ammunition.[1] Police found two 9mm pistols, a Taurus and a GUA, concealed between the shower and the wall, one loaded with five rounds and the other with four.[1]
Earlier that morning in a separate operation police searched an abandoned lot on Barracuda Street and found 402 grams of suspected cannabis under dry leaves beneath coconut trees.[1][3] No one was in the area at the Barracuda Street lot and the cannabis was recorded as found property.[1] Investigations continue.[1]
The Anti Narcotics Unit and the K9 Unit began the joint operation around 5:50am on 4 November, and an officer spotted the wrapped package around 7:23am.[3]
Ten people were jointly charged over the raid, which police said the Anti-Narcotics Unit and K-9 Unit carried out on 4 November under a search warrant.[2][4] The weight given for cannabis found in the raid is 332 grams, and two 9mm pistols were seized with ammunition, while 259 grams of cocaine was also found at the house.[2][4] The group faces charges including keeping firearms and ammunition without a gun licence and possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply.[2] At a police briefing on 6 November, Assistant Superintendent Stacy Smith confirmed that three of the accused had entered guilty pleas.[5] Akeem Locke pleaded guilty to keeping one of the two 9mm pistols.[5] Vincent Lopez pleaded guilty to offences involving 43 rounds of ammunition and 259 grams of cocaine.[5] Daniel Lagos pleaded guilty to offences involving 332 grams of cannabis and a Stoeger STR-9SC 9mm pistol.[5] Although Smith first reported ten people jointly charged, police later circulated photographs and identifying information for eleven people connected to the operation.[5] Smith said several further police operations were under way in San Pedro involving the GI3 and the Anti-Narcotics Unit.[2]
Separate operations were under way in San Pedro by the GI3 unit and the Anti-Narcotics Unit, police said.[4] The operation took place while a state of emergency was in force on Ambergris Caye, the island where San Pedro Town sits.[4] At a briefing on 6 November, Smith said no sentence had yet been given to the three who pleaded guilty.[5]
