Elias Vargas Drowns in Rio Hondo

Heavy drinking and fast running waters created the conditions for another drowning this weekend. On Sunday morning, Orange Walk Police went to the river bank in Santa Cruz Village – which is at the extreme southwestern portion of the Orange Walk District where they saw the body of 28 year old Elias Vargas, a resident of nearby Yo Creek.

Those in the area told police that at 12:30 am that morning he was coming from Botes which is a popular border village in Mexico and he was drunk. Still, he tried to swim across the Rio Hondo into Belize but went beneath the depths and never resurfaced.