“Deliverymen” accused of stealing lumber

In more court news, two Belize City brothers have pleaded not guilty to handling stolen goods in connection with the confiscation of more than four hundred and fifty pieces of lumber. Twenty-seven year old Thomas Staine and thirty year old Walter Staine of Tigris Street, who identified themselves as deliverymen to the court, were granted bail on Tuesday and the matter was adjourned until December fifteenth. The victim in this case is none other than the Government of Belize as the stolen lumber went missing from the Mahogany Heights housing site on the Western Highway. According to employees working there, the missing wood included fifteen pieces of one by eight by twelve and four hundred and forty-five pieces of one by four by ten. The wood was later found in the back of a truck that the Staines were travelling in and identified as the property of G.O.B. The lumber is valued at more than eleven thousand dollars.