American and Mexican nationals face immigration charges
Kirk Leslie Daughtry
Enrique Alvarez
Forty-six year old Kirk Daughtry, an American national and his crewman twenty-six year old Enrique Alvarez of Mexico were both arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today for immigration and maritime offenses. Both men lawfully entered the country by sea on June twenty-second through San Pedro Town and claimed that they would depart the following day, but they never did. This Tuesday they were detained in Belize City by Belize Port Authority at the Radisson Marina. They were jointly charged with one count of failure to contravene with the conditions of a permit. Daughtry and Alvarez pleaded guilty to the offense and were fined a thousand dollars each to be paid immediately. Following the arraignment Daughtry was escorted to courtroom number seven where he appeared before Magistrate Edd Usher to answer to allegations that he failed to report an incident in which his vessel, Odyssey, had ran aground near Drown Caye. He was subsequently charged with three counts of failure to report a maritime incident, refusing to authorize a port officer to board his yacht and failure to take a license pilot. Daughtry, who was defended by attorney Kevin Arthurs, was granted bail in the sum of five thousand dollars. The condition of his release is that he was to surrender all his traveling documents to the Clerk of Court forthwith. Daughtry is scheduled to reappear in court on September 8th.
Although this is a minor case the court is doing their job, i can stop stopping my feet here for a moment.
But did we take his boat? Didn’t we give the guy running for senate in Florida a court date & he snubbed us. Good luck getting these two to show up.
Stop allowing these foreigners to do what they want in our country.Belizeans can’t go to any country and do what they want.Had a Belizean done something of this magnitude in Mexico or America he or she would be facing life behind bars.
huh next fail case
I agree with Elgin…we just keep allowing foreigners to come in and rape our country and they reap the benefits. Its time we stop this crap and let everyone know that if you want to do business in Belize that there are rules and regulations you have to follow. There should be a law that says that only locals may navigate our waters which are full of life living coral which need constant proteccion. Foreigners think that with a Map and GPS they become navigatal experts and dont need “dumb locals” to navigate our waters. My dad has been a fisherman from the age of 14 (he is 64 years old now) and can navigate our Belizeans water in perfect and storm conditions and without any technology. He has navigated and survived thru a couple of storms and hurricanes. NO GPS or high tech equipment will replace the experince that our belizean fishermen have. So change the laws right? It seems like a simple concept but why cant our “highly educated officals” get this….
Can’t blame them……. THEY FELL IN LOVE WITH BELIZE ……… and did not know they had to report running aground. OPEN & SHUT!!!!!!!!!!!
they here illegally and they are given a longer time to stay….re-appear in court Sept 8…..
ih look like dem magistrate stupid. 5000 bail…what a joke….
What isn’t clear to me, is if we’re talking US dollars or BZ dollars.
In any case, it is my opinion that the fines for entering the country illegally and / or damages to our natural resources should be hefty fines to deter these incidents. When you look at the fines for similar incidents in the US they are much bigger sums of money.
Sounds fisfy to me! was this boat searched for drugs?
Should have locked up that ….. Gringo the same way they do to all illegal aliens that goes to the U.S., same goes for the Mexican dude. They think they can do anything just because they are from certain country.