Firearm offender additionally charged for stolen phone

A prison inmate who is on remand for a firearm offense has run into additional problems for the possession of a stolen phone. Last Friday police on patrol in the King’s Park area of Belize City stumbled on Stanley Moore with an unlicensed gun. But that was just the beginning of Moore’s dilemma. That’s because when police searched Moore they also found on him a receipt from a local pawn shop for a Motorola cell phone that was reported stolen last Tuesday in a robbery. The victim, twenty year old Jesselyn Bennett reported that she was walking on East Canal between Church and Orange Streets when a man rode up to her and grabbed her cell phone. Police traced the receipt they found on Moore to the pawn shop and discovered that the item was traded in for cash. So while he awaits trial for the unlicensed weapon, Moore also faces at least a charge of Handling Stolen Goods in respect of the cell phone.