Two men charged for murder of Alberto Allen

Two men were taken to court this morning for the homicide of Alberto Braddick Allen. The City’s latest murder victim was stabbed multiple times and had a gunshot to the back when he was found at mile three and a half on the Western Highway around midday on Tuesday. The two men charged actually led the cops to the scene of the gruesome murder. They are eighteen year-old Warren Lewis, an unemployed resident of the Lord’s Bank area and twenty year old Cordel Flores Flowers, a resident of Arlington Drive in Belize City, who were intercepted in a Toyota Corolla car during a police patrol. It is believed that Allen’s murder was in retaliation of another murder and police say they are following all leads.
This morning before newly appointed Magistrate Kathleen Lewis, the two accused were slapped with three charges: Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder and Keeping an Unlicensed Firearm. Lewis was represented by Attorney, Kevin Arthurs, who told the court it is unfair not to tell the accused men who they conspired to kill and secondly, he asked for a disclosure date. While Magistrate Lewis took note of Arthurs’ concern, she had one of her own regarding Cordel’s surname who claimed he only goes by the name of Flores and not Flowers. By the end of the arraignment, however, the Magistrate noted that the accused uses both names. That’s because on April first, 2008, Cordel Flowers, Alrick Olivera, and a third person, later identified as Charles Castillo, were charged with the Murder of Tyrone Castellanos Neal. Flowers subsequently got off that charge. Along with Neal, he was remanded to the Hattieville Prison and is to reappear in court on September fifteenth.