Two more charged in penthouse burglary

Two more suspects have been charged in connection with the high stakes break in at the penthouse apartment of businessman Luke Espat. Twenty-nine year old Kent Skeete of Mahogany Street and eighteen year old Michael Plunkett of Supal Street in Belize City were arraigned today for Burglary and Conspiracy to Commit Burglary in the court of Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. Between April eleventh and fourteenth the duo allegedly broke into Espat’s residence on the seventh floor of Renaissance Towers after being admitted to the building by an accomplice, security guard Mark Godoy Junior. The thieves made off with a safe containing forty thousand dollars in cash, two nine millimetre pistols with magazines and ammunition, a laptop computer and cell phone. The empty safe was later found at the city dump. It had been opened with a blow torch. Skeete and Plunkett were denied bail and remanded until their next hearing on May fourteenth. Godoy, who was charged and remanded on Monday, will also appear on that date.