{"id":78851,"date":"2026-01-19T19:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/?p=78851"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:40:05","slug":"darnell-valentine-charged-for-cocaine-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/darnell-valentine-charged-for-cocaine-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Darnell Valentine Charged for Cocaine Possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police in Orange Walk have charged twenty-four\u2011year\u2011old Darnell Valentine for drug possession with intent to supply after he was allegedly caught discarding a bag containing cocaine during a late\u2011night patrol. According to investigators, the incident unfolded just after midnight on Progress Street, where officers say the suspect attempted to throw away the package as they approached. A search of the area later confirmed it contained several small packets of suspected cocaine. Here\u2019s how ASP Stacy Smith outlined the arrest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_78795\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78795\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-19-19h01m33s477-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Stacy Smith\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-19-19h01m33s477-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-19-19h01m33s477-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-19-19h01m33s477-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-19-19h01m33s477-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-19-19h01m33s477-1300x731.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vlcsnap-2026-01-19-19h01m33s477.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-78795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Stacy Smith<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOrange Walk Police have formally arrested and charge Darnell Valentine, a twenty-four-year-old labor of Half Moon Caye street, Orange Walk Town for the offense of possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply. The arresting officer reported that at 12:15 a.m. on seventeenth January, 2026, he was on patrol on Progress Street when his attention was drawn to a male person who was observed throwing away a bag. The bag when inspected and weighed was found to contain two-point-two grams of suspected cocaine, consisting of four small packets.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Orange Walk have charged twenty-four\u2011year\u2011old Darnell Valentine for drug possession with intent to supply after he was allegedly caught discarding a bag containing cocaine during a late\u2011night patrol. According to investigators, the incident unfolded just after midnight on Progress Street, where officers say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":78798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,2195,444,475,469],"tags":[9988,10014],"class_list":["post-78851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-drugs","category-latest-news","category-news","category-orange-walk","tag-2026-01-19","tag-darnell-valentine-charged-for-cocaine-possession"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78852,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78851\/revisions\/78852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}