Minors on rampage target taxi drivers
But back in Belize City, a number of taxi drivers were targeted over the weekend by robbers and in the case of Leon Young, they included minors on a rampage. At about three-thirty a.m. on Sunday morning, police visited the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they saw twenty-four year old Leon Young, a taxi driver of Belize City suffering from multiple stab wounds. Young was injured on the back, left and right hand, left shoulder and was stabbed in the face and chest. He is currently at the K.H.M.H. in critical condition.
Young was at the corner of West Landivar and Princess Margaret Drive early Sunday morning when he was stopped by two females and four males. They requested his service to go to Dolphin Park and upon reaching Dolphin Drive, one of the passengers grabbed him from behind and started stabbing him. Young stopped his car and another passenger continued to stab him; this time to the chest. His attackers then robbed him of his Siemens cell phone, his wristwatch and one hundred and twenty-five dollars in cash. The wristwatch, along with several pieces of clothing belonging to his attackers, has been recovered. Police have also detained four minors—two females and two males—as well as eighteen year old Michael Gladden of Consuelo Street and twenty-one year old Kenroy Cain of Haulover Road. All six were charged jointly at the Magistrate Court for Robbery, Conspiracy to Robbery, Handling Stolen Goods, Attempted Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Dangerous Harm.
Leon Young was not their only victim. And the same group of under-aged bandits who stabbed Young multiple times were apprehended and charged for attacking another taxi man. Reports are that about eight-thirty, Friday night, sixty-three year old Hipolito Fernandez picked up four men at the Princess Hotel compound in his Toyota Camry Car with license plate D 4556. The jackers directed him to take them to the West Landivar Area where Fernandez says they overpowered him and beat him. By the end of the ordeal, the bandits robbed Fernandez of one hundred and thirty dollars, a gold ring valued at two hundred and fifty dollars, his cell phone and his vehicle. Police have since recovered the stolen vehicle at Fourteen Street in the King’s Park Area.
