By Belize Live News Staff: His pockets were clean. The ground two feet away was another story. A Trial Farm Village man has been charged with drug possession after a midnight encounter with police on East San Martin Street.
The Belize Police Department reports that at about 12:10 a.m. on Friday, July 17, 2026, officers patrolling the Orange Walk District village spotted a man on a silver bicycle riding toward their mobile. The sight of the police, they said, changed his behaviour, and he was ordered to stop.
As he complied, an officer watched him throw something from his left hand to the ground. A search of his person came up empty, but the officer had seen what he had seen. Walking the man roughly two feet over, police recovered two transparent ziplock bags holding a white powdery substance suspected to be cocaine.
He was arrested on the spot, cautioned, informed of his rights, and taken to the Orange Walk Police Station, where he was identified as Johnie Ademir Cal, 31, a construction worker of Nightingale Street, Trial Farm Village.
The suspected cocaine was weighed in front of him, registering 0.47 grams, then sealed with evidence tape, labelled, and passed to the exhibit keeper through the chain of custody.
Cal was formally charged with possession of controlled drugs. Cautioned again after the charge, he opted for silence.
