Mechanic given 5 years for theft of car parts

A Belize City mechanic has been sentenced to five years behind bars after his client’s car was found stripped of everything from headlights to wheels. According to court reports, in February 2005 Herbert Wiltshire agreed to do repairs on a vehicle belonging to Ethel Arnold and drove the car to his home slash shop on Cran Street. But when Arnold went to check on her vehicle on March eleventh, the car’s battery, radiator, two cooling fans, wheels, including the spare, windows, headlights, and a number of other parts were all missing. The lost items were calculated to be worth seven thousand eight hundred dollars, while the owner estimated the total value of the vehicle to be eight thousand dollars. Wiltshire appeared before Magistrate Harry Hulett where he was convicted of theft and sentenced. We are told Wiltshire has already indicated that he will appeal the court’s verdict. The defendant has nine previous convictions. We last met Wiltshire in June 2004 when he was the victim of a shooting on North Front Street. In 1992, he was accused but never convicted of the murder of Derek “Itza” Brown at the National Stadium.