A man is recovering ion the Northern Regional Hospital in Orange Walk Town after he was shot in a drug deal that went wrong. The police investigation started when 31 year old Marvin Moguel went to the emergency room with two gunshot wounds to his back. Moguel is from a Waight Street address in Belize City. Police went in search of the man who took him to the hospital and found 55 year old Charles Daniel right inside the hospital compound. The Los Lagos resident was in a Chevy SUV.
Police searched the vehicle and found Moguel’s fully loaded and licensed 9mm pistol and they also dug up 1 kilo of cocaine which was stuffed in a plastic bag beneath the SUV’s hood. Further investigation found that earlier that morning, the pair were in Carmelita allegedly arranging a drug transaction with two Hispanic men when one of them shot Moguel.
