Two arrested in separate Belize City robberies

In crime news, police in Belize City have nabbed two young men on robbery charges, resulting from separate incidents. Twenty year old Jason Flowers was arrested and charged on Thursday for the robbery of a Chinese shop on Oleander Street. The proprietor, Shu Wo Hui, told police that shortly after eleven o’clock on Tuesday morning, a man entered his shop brandishing a handgun and demanding money. As a result, Hui said he handed over seventy dollars. Also on Thursday, police arrested and charged eighteen year old Jamie Dawson following a report made by twenty-one year old Leonora Castro that a gold chain and a bracelet were snatched from around her neck on Saturday night as she stood in front of her house on Lakeview Street. The stolen jewelry is valued at twelve hundred dollars.