Stabbing, shooting by outraged women lead weekend crime
A twenty-seven year old woman remains in police custody tonight after police say she stabbed her common-law husband in the stomach. Forty year old Honduran national Emilio Castillo lies in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. Dangriga police say initial investigations reveal that Castillo was home around three this morning when he became involved in an argument with his common-law wife who picked up a knife and inflicted the injury.
Meanwhile in Benque Viejo del Carmen, a twenty-two pistol was the weapon of choice as another woman sought to express her outrage through violence. As a result, twenty-five year old Andy Melendez lies in critical condition at the Western Regional Hospital. Police say that this afternoon Melendez was at his mechanic shop when he was approached by a thirty-one year old woman who squeezed off two rounds, one of which caught him just below the heart. The motive for the attack appears to be jealousy as it seems that Melendez had a girlfriend whom he left to take up with the assailant. He then had a change of heart and left the assailant to go back to the first woman. The shooter turned herself in to police and is expected to be charged shortly.
Also recovering from gunshots is eighteen year old Lincoln Sinclair. Belize City police say Sinclair was standing in front of his house on Logwood Street on Friday night along with his mother when a man approached and fired several shots. Two of those bullets caught Sinclair on the left shoulder and left side of the back. Today authorities say they have arrested the young man they strongly believe pulled the trigger. He is eighteen year old Edwin Bardalez of Banak Street. Bardalez has been charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. Police say they also believe Bardalez was one of the two men who robbed the staff of Safeway drugstore on Friday.
Belize City police have arrested and charged thirty year old Roger Anthony after he reportedly walked into Malic’s supermarket on Central American Boulevard, pulled out a gun, and threatened an employee. That employee has told police that he was working inside the establishment around five on Friday evening when a man he was able to identify as Anthony entered the store and demanded to speak to the owner. According to the complainant, he then informed Anthony that the owner was not present at which time Anthony pulled out a nine millimetre pistol from his pants waist and threatened him. Police were called and when they arrived on the scene, they searched the area and found Anthony riding his bicycle on Hondo Street. When police searched him they found a silver and black nine millimetre Ruger pistol loaded with fourteen rounds of ammunition stuck in his waistband. The weapon was later identified as one reported stolen from a businessman on May second. Anthony has been charged with Aggravated Assault, Keeping an Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition, and Handling Stolen Property.
