Sun Lunchda y- ,D 11inn Derece - Drminbeks:r 2011 - STARP a -s l oTwel :-Fa 804lls Ro-4ad900 & 626-8822 & 626-3788 - Email:[email protected] Page 1 Phone 627-3682 Bullet Tree Falls Cayo District Belize Central America *STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR AR T S * R A T S * R A T S * R A T S * R A T S *STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR8*8TAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR* No. 151299 Sunday, SUNDAY,11 December MAY 201111, 2008 Price $1.00 SAN IGNACIO, Cayo, Security Oriented Services suspected dead body of Thomas Thursday 8 December 2011: Limited (SOSL) and S&B Reyes on a blood soaked bed. While all instances of violent Loans located at #59 Burns The body, face upwards, was deaths of any individual initially Avenue in San Ignacio. Upon found with both feet on the floor. begins as a murder investigation, arrival they were directed to the Beside the body, near the right the Thursday morning discovery adjoining living quarters of hand, on the bed, police found of the dead body of a security SOSL security supervisor, a black 9 millimeter pistol officer is revealing several Thomas Bert Reyes II. along with one unexpended 9 characteristics consistent with The police approached the millimeter bullet on the bed and suicide. front door, pushed it open on the floor near the right At around 8:30 this Thursday thereby instantly realizing that it foot was a single expended 9 morning, San Ignacio police was closed, but unlocked. Upon millimeter casing. The magazine were called to the office of entering the room, they saw the Please Turn To Page 2 Thomas Bert Reyes II, 49 Sunrise: 24 August 1962 SAN IGNACIO, Cayo, disappearance of a pistol fitted Sunset: 8 December 2011 Thursday, 8 December 2011: with a magazine containing 10 Under normal circumstances, live rounds of ammunition. the term “Sleeping Policeman” Fortunately for all concerned, denotes an obstruction across a except for the sleeping street or highway installed to policeman and the thief, the slow down vehicular traffic. It entire incident was captured by is nothing new to residents of the police internal surveillance western Belize, who encounter camera system which revealed all 21 of them when travelling the arrival of the accused, Belize the western highway between Defense Force soldier, Adrian Roaring Creek and Santa Elena. Gregory Francis, at around In this instance however 4:20 on the morning of Monday, we are referring to an 5 December while Police The Accused Gun Thief actual sleeping policeman. A Constable #835 Selvyn Myers policeman sleeping on duty sat at the front desk. A few Adrian Gregory Francis inside the police station, it minutes later Myers fell asleep gun into his waist band, actually goes further, a at the desk. Francis got up, bent returning to his original position policeman, on front desk duties, over the sleeping policeman, in front of the sleeping sleeping on his outstretched opened the locker, took out the policeman, woke him up, hands while he sat on a chair gun, walked into the corridor bucked knuckles and quickly behind the desk resulting in the PC #835 Selvyn Myers towards the cell block, stuck the Please Turn To Page 15 Check out our FACEBOOK page: Blue Angels Email: [email protected] PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com Page 2 - STAR - Tel:- 804-4900 & 626-8822 & 626-3788 - Email:[email protected] - Sunday, 11 December 2011 SAN IGNACIO TOWN, Cayo, Tuesday, 6 December 2011: He was among the first set of taxi driver we knew growing in Santa Elena/San Ignacio and today Melhem Antonio Awe, popularly known as “Chanto” was laid to rest in San Ignacio. 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The body was found clothed Defense Force, was working as and began inquiring about Thomas “Tom” Bert Reyes II, in a shirt and short pants and an SOSL security officer for Reyes, he reportedly knocked on a resident of the Sabal with what appeared to be the past four years. He was the back door and when he got Community in Dangriga is gunshot wounds to both sides of transferred, about two months the unusual no response, he predeceased by his father the temple. The police also ago, to supervise the company’s walked around the corner to a Thomas Sabal I. He is survived retrieved the lead from a bullet operations in San Ignacio. side bathroom window, pulled by his mother Sylvia Bregal which was found stuck in a While his friends, who the curtain and with the residing in Dangriga, three nearby wall. routinely hung out with him on bathroom door open, he got a brothers Police Corporal Combining the position of the the Burns Avenue sidewalk clear view of the bedroom where Samuel Bonilla residing in body on the bed, the location of across the street from the office, he saw the body and the large Belize City; Charles Castillo the gun along with the single were looking for an explanation blood stain on the bed. He (Dangriga) and Norman Sabal expended round on the floor behind the tragedy, there was the rushed around to the front of (New York). He is also survived nearby, the lead in the wall and talk about the possibility of the the building and told the other by two sisters: Sharlett Sabal the injuries to the head, paints a tragedy being triggered by the friend what he saw. The other residing in New York and picture of the deceased standing recent losing of security jobs friend placed the 911 call to Kimberly Belisle residing in next to the bed, placing the gun in the community as this the police who arrived shortly Dangriga. He is also survived by at point blank range to the right dominated his most recent thereafter. his wife Jenice Martinez side of the head, pulling the conversations with his two The owner and managing Reyes and their son Thomas trigger resulting in the bullet sidewalk friends one of whom director of SOSL, Paul Garcia, Reyes III a fourth form student entering the right side of the operated the adjacent S&B confirmed that the company’s at Delille Academy in Dangriga. head, exiting through the left Loans business and the other his clientele was indeed on the The body is slated to side and eventually landing in predecessor at SOSL. These two decline in the area which he be transported on Friday, 9 the wall with the deceased friends are reportedly the last attributes to other factors and December, from San Ignacio to falling backwards on the bed. persons to see him alive, when, not necessarily to Reyes’ the Karl Heusner Memorial Police also found a sealed at around 10 the previous performance. The suspected Hospital in Belize City white, blood stained, envelope morning, he left them on the suicide note, which was certified where the post mortem addressed “To the Love of my sidewalk, walked across the in a written statement to the examination will be conducted life Mrs. Jenice C. Reyes” street, entered his living police by police corporal, by forensic specialist Dr. Mario signed “Love always Tom” with quarters, exited through the Samuel Bonilla, younger Estradabran after which it will a gold, wedding type, ring on top office door, padlocked the office brother of the deceased, to be in be transported to Dangriga for of it. Also inside the room were door from the outside and the decease’s handwriting with funeral and burial services. May a half bottle of rum and a glass reentered his living quarters which he is acquainted, rather his soul now rest in eternal peace. containing liquor. pulling the door behind him. vindicated Garcia’s position as, The scene was processed and The friend who occupies an at the risk of delving too deep in the body was transported to adjacent room in the S&B Loans this rather personal message to the San Ignacio Community section informed of the unusual his wife and son, indicated that Hospital where, upon arrival at loud volume of the TV in his he was sorry for what he had “The Newspaper that around 9:30 am, it was officially neighbor’s room, but he was done and that he had gotten tired cares and dares to pronounced dead by the more concerned about the of the medication. He requested bring out the truth” medical officer on duty, Dr. disturbance to the landlord who for his son to “Take good care 42A Western Highway, Sandra Martinez.