Belize Waste Control employee faces aggravated assault charges

A sexual assault report resulted in the arrest today of thirty-three year old Gilbert Blanco, an employee of Belize Waste Control. A twenty-one year old woman of Kut Avenue reported to police that in the wee hours of Monday morning she was rudely awakened by a hand caressing her buttocks. Her crafty assailant was apparently able to reach the sleeping woman through a window. When the woman got up to check who was touching her and peered through the window, she saw a man making his way out of her yard. She said the man stopped for a moment under a lamp post light, then walked towards Tanoomah Street. Blanco was charged with Aggravated Assault when he appeared today in Magistrate’s Court. He pleaded not guilty to the charge and was offered bail of one thousand five hundred dollars. Blanco was unable to meet bail and was remanded to prison until August twenty-fifth.