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Aug 18, 2010

Serial escapee, Dennis Quilter, back in custody

Dennis Quilter

For more than four months he has remained at large after he broke out of the Hattieville Correctional Facility.  And since then he was thought to be back in the United States, but now it is reported that thirty five year old Dennis Quilter was hiding out on Belizean soil all along.  The notorious figure, it is believed, was strapped for cash to abscond to America. Well his luck also ran out today as he was recaptured and tonight he is behind bars once again in Hattieville.  Quilter was escorted under heavy prison guard to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court and was charged with Escape.  But the charge could not be read to him due to an error on the court book and the matter was delayed until August twenty-fifth, when a plea will be taken from him.  Quilter, who was on the run for over four months, altered his appearance to conceal his true identity. This morning when he was captured during a search of a taxi on Baymen Avenue, the shirtless Quilter had hair instead a bald head as he did when he escaped.  He told police during his capture that his name was Albert Tillett and that he was a Belizean citizen visiting from America.  But one of the officers recognized him and he was immediately taken into custody.

Before leaving the courtroom, Quilter asked Magistrate Dorothy Flowers if there is any way he could still appeal a conviction for a burglary in which he was sentenced to twenty seven years, but was told that it’s too late. Quilter escaped on April tenth of this year along with four other prisoners.  The inmates gained freedom by cutting the locks to their cells and over-powering the prison officer on duty and then tying him up.  Dennis Quilter has as many as four escape charges on his record.


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12 Responses for “Serial escapee, Dennis Quilter, back in custody”

  1. MADDYVANDIJK/DEREALIST says:

    Disrespecting the law, the court and the prison.
    give him an additional 12 years in prison for failure to respect the law.

  2. BZNinCALI says:

    Where is he getting the tools? Maybe our prison officials should read, It Takes A Thief, to catch a thief, put him in his own cell.

    I guess he didn’t make it back to the states because no one out here wants him either.

  3. Elgin Martinez says:

    Give this idiot life behind bars.

  4. Elgin Martinez says:

    Dorothy Flowers is riding a high horse.Maybe she’s waiting to become a victim .

  5. Proud says:

    I will sit and wait the outcome of this one…

  6. Elgin Martinez says:

    rod:I am down with your suggestion we as Belizeans need to wake up.

  7. Chris says:

    Then you wonder why the crimes continues…

  8. rod says:

    NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH OK belizeans out of 365 days in the year guess how many days this pm has been out of belize 155 days out of the country nop wonder belize the go to hell come on news five put the poll up who think this pm the do one good job fair job worse job ever lets poll this question. and unu wonder why this country is in the state its in well wonder no more

  9. Earl Grey says:

    and……….. ADD SOME HARD LABOUR TO HIS SENTENCE!!!!!!!!!!

  10. sabuskii says:

    u belizeans making these suggestions are either stupid or blind folded what good is a poll go do when in belize the politicians buy their votes .which means they could also pay for people to vote on this poll.u guys talk like farts into the wind……………all politicians in power right now and even the ones that lost paid for thier votes each and every votes .either by employing who voted for them or paid out in cash effectively.u guys are probably talkin cause ur p’s are not in power wait ur turn just like the ones in power and the one now emplyed did stop crying wolf u were wolfs once too

  11. sabuskii says:

    now u r the sheeps meheh ehhhhh meow

  12. Earl Grey says:

    sabuskii…………….YOU STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!

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