From Pedro at the AmbergrisVacations forums:

“I was in Ivo’s new coffee shop when I got a call from Laurie Jackson (my asst. manager) who said there were the police/immigration/customs personnel at the gate with a search warrant issued in SP of todays date,and I better come back immediately.

When I got back there was Laurie(the vet) with the immigration officer, who had not waited for me,investigating all her paperwork which he ruled was a 100% correct.I asked him if it had not been correct what would have happened and he said she probably would have been taken into custody.

The customs and the police went to my bar examined every bottle,then to the liquor store room,and then into my house-they found nothing illegal,and by this time they were apologising as they had been told to come by various luminaries on a charity board,who had been making lots of calls to the heads of their respective organisations-this could be looked as an abuse of privilege.”

Apparently someone really has it in for the new San Pedro Animal Hospital.  Laurie the Vet used to be employed by the local animal charity SAGA.  I would absolutely hate to find that they had anything to do with this.  The Animal Hospital is a great addition to San Pedro and important for future ex-pats like myself.

Also, kudos to Laurie the vet and and Pedro for being on the up-and-up and being able to pass this detestable test by those with evil intentions.