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GSU search results in big marijuana bust

By on September 18, 2013

The Gang Suppression Unit (GSU) is reporting a big drug bust in Belize City. 

During a search of a house on Gibson Street on Sunday night, personnel of the GSU say they found two sacks and two separate plastic bags underneath a sheet all containing marijuana weighing over 50 pounds.

The home owner and the marijuana were escorted to the Queen Street police station.

The following day, on Monday, September 16 police formally arrested and charged Calbert Hubert Young, 24, with four counts of possession of controlled drugs with the intent to supply. 

Police say the amount of marijuana found in the bags weighed in at 17.5 kilograms in one bag; 7 kilograns in another; 451 grams in a third and 448 grams in the fourth bag.

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