Burglary suspect busted by alert cops

A Belize City man is tonight cooling his heels in prison after being busted for burglary. On Tuesday police responded to reports of a break-in at a home on Thomas Vincent Ramos Street in Belama Phase Two. According to police and court records, between eight twenty-five a.m. and eleven twenty-five, someone entered the home of thirty-one year old Rene Montero by removing the louvers from a window and stole twenty-eight thousand dollars worth of his possessions. While they were in the area, police spotted twenty-four year old Cristobal Aguallo carrying a knapsack and searched him. In the bag they found a laptop computer and a number of items identified as belonging to Montero. Police also recovered three other knapsacks from the bushes nearby which contained more of Montero’s things. Aguallo pleaded not guilty to Burglary this morning in Magistrates’ Court and has been remanded to Hattieville Prison until July sixteenth after the prosecution objected to bail. Grounds for the objection were that Aguallo is already before the courts on another charge of burglary.