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Jun 15, 2010

Tacos vendor gets one year for inflicting 8 stab wounds

Myra Leticia Pineda

Also in court, a thirty two year old female tacos vendor who was accused of stabbing a woman eight times in front of the Publics Supermarket will be spending one year in jail. Myra Leticia Pineda originally claimed she stabbed a waitress, Claudia Gutierrez, in self defense. Gutierrez was left scarred for life; she is unable to smell since her nose was badly injured in the December seventeenth, 2009 stabbing. Pineda’s trial started earlier last month in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, and ended today before Magistrate Kathleen Lewis when she was found guilty of grievous harm. While she maintained she was innocent, she then claimed that Gutierrez was injured during a struggle for a knife. But Gutierrez was stabbed eight times on her hands, nose, neck and her back. The stabbing is believed to have been prompted by a claim linked to Gutierrez that Pineda’s husband had fathered her child. Before close of trial, the court prosecutor noted that the number of injuries to Gutierrez should have warranted a charge of attempted murder which would have been tried in the Supreme Court before a jury where the penalty on conviction would have been a jail term of eighteen years to life.


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7 Responses for “Tacos vendor gets one year for inflicting 8 stab wounds”

  1. maddyvandijk says:

    Another idiot down the drain, wasting her life on a low down dirty …….

    sad but true, even today women in Belize are still accepting the fact that their man has two women.

    she fell on your knife eight times, I got that part already.

  2. deedee says:

    Stupid B*%#h…she’ll be sitting in a jail cell, while the man is out here running the streets with other women. What is wrong with these women in Belize today????

  3. BELIZEANGYPSY says:

    See how it works, if she had killed the other woman she would walked out that courtroom a free woman. Theres always two sides to a story, what was the other womans part in this story?

  4. tim says:

    bembe!.

  5. macal rivera says:

    this dah weh happen when

    ” You’ve got the papers I got the man”
    Can you imagine going to jail for one stinking ….., dis dah wat women fight over, the other one now she can’t even smell the man again!!!! ……

  6. Nikki says:

    “Stop fight ova man”….dem ladies need fi learn fi mek dem man stop play with dem mind. He have a nxt picni den run that. One locked up, one injured and di man free mussi di mek moe picni…

  7. Elgin Martinez says:

    Maybe Gutierrez mek better Tacos than Myra.So you need to step up you game Myra.

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