Asian shop owners and their employees to be trialed for drug trafficking in April

Published by BBNTEAM at February 20, 2023

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Posted: Monday, February 20, 2023. 4:34 pm CST.

By Breaking Belize News Staff: Asian shop owners Zhi Jun Huang and Jin Lian Zhang, along with their employees Ana Muchuca, Cameron Slusher, and Seth Carillo will be standing trial for drug trafficking in April.

The group appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on Friday, February 17, to receive their disclosure in relation to charges of possession of controlled drugs and possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply to another, with respect to marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine, and crystal methamphetamines found at their store located on Douglas Jones Street, Belize City back in 2022. Additionally

Huang and Zhang were also here jointly charged with two counts of kept ammunition without being granted a gun license for 17 live rounds of 9mm live rounds of ammunition and one live round, a total of 18 live rounds of 9 mm ammunition.

They received a total of 25 pages of information for their disclosure, and the trial date was for April 26.

Carillo had been charged separately from the rest of the group for possession of controlled drugs in relation to a small amount of marijuana. He pleaded guilty to that charge and was fined.

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