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BELMOPAN (CMC):

The Belize government has ordered a “ full and thorough” investigation that is expected to “determine the source of some sweet treats … that were ingested by a number of children and adults. Police Commissioner Chester Williams said the gummies that were laced with marijuana, resulting in a number of people, including a five-year-old child being rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) had been discovered in a barrel by customs.

“Initial information is that the treats were purchased from two individuals, who are now in police custody along with some recovered items,” the Office of the Prime Minister said in the statement.

Williams said the Anti Narcotics Unit (ANU) retrieved the gummies and samples were taken and sent to the National Forensic [Science] Services for analysis because “we did not know then what those gummies were or what they represent.

“So, for us to have been sure, it was sent to the lab for testing and about three weeks ago, from what I was briefed yesterday, the boxes containing these gummies were taken to our national exhibit room in Belize City for safekeeping, pending the return of the results that were requested from the lab.”

But Williams said that sometime last week, based on the briefing he was given “the exhibit keeper decided to dispose of these gummies by way of putting them in a garbage trailer that is kept inside the Queen Street Police Station compound.

“Thereafter, the yardman…