King?s Park woman charged for stealing light

It’s a common practice but this morning a Belize City woman appeared, charged with stealing electricity. Forty-one year old Lottie Lanza Jex was brought before Magistrate Harry Hulett to answer to the seldom prosecuted crime of abstracting electricity. Lanza-Jex, a resident of “I” Street in King’s Park pled not guilty to the charge and was granted bail of fifteen hundred dollars. According to a report made by Carlton Spencer, a B.E.L. linesman, on Wednesday he was inspecting lamp posts in the area when he saw a wire linking the electricity company’s power lines to Jex’s house. Spencer noticed that there was no meter on the premises and reported the matter to the police, who conducted an investigation and later apprehended Jex. She was ordered to reappear in court on October twenty-fourth.