High-Grade Haul: Kings Park Woman Busted with 70 lbs. of Weed
A major drug bust in Belize City has landed a young woman behind bars and raised serious concerns about the scale of street-level drug trafficking. Police say twenty-four-year-old Rebecca Marlene Daniels was arrested on Thursday after a search at her Kings Park home turned up a staggering seventy pounds of suspected cannabis, packaged in thirty parcels and reportedly including high-grade strains like Sour Diesel, Mango Kush, and Green Crack. The estimated street value? Over a hundred thousand Belize dollars. Daniels now faces a serious charge: possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply.
Ronnel Gonzalez, Attorney-at-law
鈥淚n the arraignment, Ms. Rebecca Daniels was charged with possession of controlled drugs with the intent to supply. The quantity was seventy pounds, charged before the court. The matter went to arraignment, the charge was read and the defendant entered a plea of not guilty. Thereafter, I made a formal application for bail before the court and the magistrate, in her wisdom, saw it fit to grant bail in the matter. Bail was granted in the sum of ten thousand dollars, with two sureties of the same: five thousand dollars each and at this time, bail is being processed. As it relates to marijuana and the charge that鈥檚 before the court, the legislation is silent on that point, to the fact that you are able to be granted bail before the magistrate鈥檚 court for the sum that was before the court today. The conditions given for bail before the court was that she should sign in to the police station once a week. She should surrender her travel documents to the court. She should not leave the jurisdiction of Belize without permission of the court.鈥