{"id":44142,"date":"2016-01-16T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/statement-from-the-belize-police-department\/"},"modified":"2016-01-16T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T03:21:00","slug":"statement-from-the-belize-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/statement-from-the-belize-police-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from the Belize Police Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">BELIZE<\/span> CITY, <span class=\"xn-location\">Belize<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 16, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0On <span class=\"xn-chron\">January 14<\/span>, the proprietor of Nabitunich Resort in Benque Viejo del Carmen, Cayo reported Ms. <span class=\"xn-person\">Anne Swaney<\/span> missing to law enforcement.\u00a0 Police engaged in a search for Anne, soliciting the assistance of a K-9 unit.\u00a0 After ending the search due to darkness on the night of <span class=\"xn-chron\">January 14<\/span>, the search continued on Friday, January 15.\u00a0 Police discovered her body at approximately <span class=\"xn-chron\">8:15 a.m.<\/span> near the Mopan River.\u00a0 Physical examinations at the scene revealed visible bruises around her neck and lacerations on her head.\u00a0 She was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.\u00a0 A post mortem autopsy was performed and revealed the cause of death to be asphyxia due to compression of the neck area, throttling and blunt force traumatic injuries to the head and neck.\u00a0 There were no signs of sexual assault as part of this examination.<\/p>\n<p>Police apprehended and are questioning a person of interest who was found fishing near the scene of the crime.\u00a0 Additional information will be made available as the investigation proceeds.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers are with Anne&#8217;s family.\u00a0 We are dedicated to bringing swift justice to the person who committed this horrible act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">BELIZE<\/span> CITY, <span class=\"xn-location\">Belize<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 16, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0On <span class=\"xn-chron\">January 14<\/span>, the proprietor of Nabitunich Resort in Benque Viejo del Carmen, Cayo reported Ms. <span class=\"xn-person\">Anne Swaney<\/span> missing to law enforcement.\u00a0 Police engaged in a search for Anne, soliciting the assistance of a K-9 unit.\u00a0 After ending the search due to darkness on the night of <span class=\"xn-chron\">January 14<\/span>, the search continued on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}