There was a home invasion in the village of August Pine Ridge in Orange Walk yesterday morning. At 7:30 AM, 58 year old Jovita Blanco was in front of her house along with her husband Erlindo Blanco, when three men held them up with a firearm, dragged them inside the house and ransacked it. They left with a few hundred dollars and then went to the other family home in the yard and held up their daughter Dilsy Tillett and stole another $250 dollars.
No one was injured but it was an outrageous assault in a small village and we asked the compel about it today:
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"There is some information that two or three armed men, two of dark complexion, one of Hispanic descent entered a home and they ransacked the house. In one instance they took I think just over $400 and then in another house nearby, associated with the same first home, they took just over $200 and they left the area. No one was injured and so police are looking at that matter."
The men escaped in a grey 4-door vehicle.
