Local News

Once again Mother Nature’s Best Kept Secret has been the haven for another fugitive, this time hailing all the way from Europe.  Forty-two year old Karol Mello, a native of the Slovak Republic in Eastern European, was reportedly living in Belize for the past several months, and conducting a business in San Pedro Town.  He was wanted by European authorities in connection with a double murder in 2004.  Referred to as an alleged mafia don, the fugitive was apprehended on Pescador Drive in San Pedro on Thursday.  In October of 2010, he was arrested in Poland but was let go in May of 2011 when adequate procedures were not followed in processing his case.  Reports are that Mello is also believed to be involved in the murder of a European drug kingpin.