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The process was efficient. Sacks filled with tightly wrapped parcels of the white stuff are offloaded, individually photographed and counted. Seconds before each package is slit open and thrown into the burning pit, a chemist would randomly select three of the parcels and with a Modified Scott’s Reagent, confirm that its content is cocaine.
ACP Marco Vidal
“Prosecution applied to the court for the order to be given for it to be destroyed. So the drugs were removed from the secured area in Belize City to this area. It is now being sampled, twenty-six bales, plus the two, the twenty-eight bales are taken out and then each parcel is taken out from the bag. And then the chemist is checking that it is drug, that it is cocaine, and it is blue if it is cocaine. Once that is done, then it is thrown in the fire where it is consumed.”
Duane Moody
“Sir but there’s a curfew. There’s quarantine regulations in place and there is a curfew.”
Dickie Bradley
“Okay prosecutor. If you here that a plane has crashed, you wouldn’t want to try and see if you could rescue somebody or try and go to the scene of a crash? There was presumably, according to some thing, that there was a big ball of fire and the police could smell fuel burning and so on and so forth. There must have been two pilots. I don’t know if any of the nine persons from the rural area are pilots, but the pilots and I would imagine that a lot more drugs would be in a plane that size. Those were able to get away, but they were able to get some of the drugs.”