Illegal loggers busted up north

Posted: Tuesday, September 26, 2017. 8:24 a.m. CST.

By BBN Staff: Four men have been detained by police after they were busted with 32 illegally harvested mahogany logs on the Philip Goldson highway.

According to reports, sometime around 3:30 on Sunday afternoon Orange Walk police intercepted the men, who were in a white Isuzu freighter.

Cops arrested the men and impounded their vehicle. Thereafter, police contacted the Forestry Department.

BBN can confirm that the names of the men will be released today after they are charged and arraigned in the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court.

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