Belizean-American cop clinging to life in Florida
Michael Paul Robertson
A Belizean is clinging to life in the U.S. after being violently attacked and left lying in a pool of blood on the streets of Liberty City, Miami. Carlos Castillo, a Belizean-American detective for the Miami-Dade Police Department for the past fifteen years, was on duty last Friday night when he pulled over Michael Paul Robertson. Robertson is an ex-con who was wanted for firing a gun during an argument with the mother of his child. Robertson ran from his vehicle when the officer stopped him, leaving his girlfriend twenty-five year old Monica Banks in the car. While the cop was placing the handcuffs on Banks, Robertson returned with a concrete block and hit the officer over his head with it. Castillo was hit with such force that the block broke on impact. Banks looked on as Robertson proceeded to kick the uniformed officer in the head and chest when he fell on the street. The attack only got worse and Robertson got into Castillo’s vehicle, a Dodge Charger, and drove over the detective before fleeing the scene. Castillo was transported to the Ryder Trauma Center in Miami with fractures to his skull, brain damage, a liver laceration, seven broken ribs and a spine injury among others. Police were later informed that Robertson was hiding at a house nearby and he was detained. Bank was also detained as an accomplice and they couple was charged with Attempted First Degree Murder. Robertson was additionally charged with Robbery/Carjacking, Aggravated Assault with a Firearm and Possession of a Firearm.
It’s a cold world that we all live in; so many destructive people are out there. Many self-destructing and the world will eventually falls to bit.
Glad they caught him, hope his penalty will keep him sealed away in a vault for all eternity.
get well bro at least you’re trying to do you work with dignity than the type of rogue cops we have in belize that are criminals too.
Leave this one alone. For those who had not live in the United States of America as a black man, shut up. This frustration is already showing its ugly color in Belize. Frustrated so call minority been cops, dealing with frustrated citizen of so call minority is like gasoline and matches.
I SAW THE NEWS THIS WEEKEND AND IMMEDIATELY SENT UP PRAYERS ON BEHALF OF THIS OFFICER AND HIS FAMILY. GOD IS ABLE TO DO EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL THAT WE CAN ASK OR EVEN THINK. AS DESPERATE AS THIS SITUATION AND HIS CONDITION MAY SEEM, MY GOD IS ABLE.
Manford:
“Leave this alone”….? Why would you say that?
Whatever your reasons are, you make no sense. The guy was just doing his job, trying to apprehend a wanted felon, and he deserves to get beat to within an inch of his life?
How do you justify that, in the US or in Belize?
prayers go out to officer castillo and his family. man whata messed up world we live in..
police n rude bwoy cannot be friends…. hero play zero. hope he gets well but he was invading that mans world so he got a piece of it… i live in Fl and all police is nasty….look at the police who shot buckley back home.. all police are gangsters people are tierd of the ill treatment by LAW OFFICERS.. they chose to put a gun on their side and go harassing people why cant they do something better.. he signed his life away when he joind the miami dade county police ….