Arrests made in several recent crimes

They were taken into custody late last week, and today two men accused of robbing the Belmopan branch of Belize Water Services faced the magistrate in the nation’s capital. Twenty-three year old Jovanni Theus of Belize City and twenty year old Cordel Cayetano of Caye Caulker were charged for the crimes of robbery and harm, and remanded to Hattiveville prison until their next court appearance on December thirty-first. On Thursday of last week, three men entered the BWS Belmopan office, tied up the employees and robbed the establishment and a customer who was waiting in line of over four thousand dollars in cash. A third suspect is still on the run. Belize City police have also arrested four people in connection with a burglary at the Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist primary school on Wilson Street on the night of November tenth. Principal Jaime Roberts reported that someone broke open the door to the computer lab and made off with six of the school’s CPUs. Police investigations led to the arrest of four people and the recovery of the machines. Those arrested are nineteen-year-old Charles Smith, twenty-year-old Jose Cawich, twenty-three year old Steven Lemoine and a fifteen-year-old boy. In court today, Smith pled guilty to burglary and was sentenced to eighteen months in jail. Cawich, Lemoine and the boy, who are similarly charged for burglary and Handling Stolen Property, are expected to appear in magistrate’s court on Tuesday.

And one crime police have not yet solved is an attempt over the weekend to knock off the International Airport branch of the

Belize Bank. Sources tell News 5 that while the burglars managed to get inside the small office they were unable to crack the safe or the ATM in the arrival hall. While it is believed the appearance of security guards eventually scared the criminals off, it does raise the question of whether nighttime security at the airport is all that it needs to be.