Four robberies reported in city over weekend

Police had their hands full over the weekend, responding to four separate robberies in Belize City. The first victim was Pinks Alley grocer Jui-Liang Huang. Just after seven on Friday night, Jui was tending to a customer at Sen Sen Store when another man walked in and asked the customer for a beer. He got the beverage and left, but returned ten minutes later with a double barrel shotgun. Jui said the gunman pointed the weapon at him and demanded money and there was nothing he could do as his assailant went behind the counter and took two hundred dollars from the cash register. The robber was subsequently identified by Jui as area resident Anthony Major. The twenty-two year old appeared in Magistrate’s Court today where he was arraigned on the charge of Robbery. Because the crime was committed with a firearm, Major was remanded into custody until June nineteenth. Before they took him away, Major maintained his innocence, saying the only reason police charged him was because they felt he was taking over from his deceased brother-in-law, George “Junie Balls” McKenzie.

Around one p.m. the following day, two American tourists, Susan and Francis Judrich, reported being victimised by a mugger. The husband and wife told police that they were walking on Fort Street, when a man approached them on a bicycle, asking for money. The apparently impatient robber then grabbed Susan’s purse which contained her passport, credit card, and thirty dollars in cash. The couple said they tried to fight off the culprit but he pushed the sixty-two year old Virginia woman into the drain and took off.

The next report came from thirty-three year old Luis Wade Senior. According to Wade, he was working at a house on West Canal when around three Saturday afternoon, two men entered the premises. One of them placed a handgun to Wade’s head and robbed him of two gold chains, a cell phone, his keys, and wallet. The jackers then fled the scene.

An hour later, twenty-one year old Nazsha Smith told police she and Shameka White were walking on Banak Street when two men rode up from behind on bicycles. Smith said one of the men pointed to his pants waist, suggesting that he was carrying a gun and then demanded their cell phones. The women complied and the robbers rode off.