Employees admit guilt in Courts theft

Two men who pled guilty to ripping off Courts Belize have been fined and released. According to warehouse manager Roleto Ortiz, sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning he discovered that a flat screen computer monitor, C.P.U., speakers, and several other items, valued at more than two thousand four hundred dollars, were missing. Ortiz’s own investigations into the disappearance led him to employees Marlon Matus and Gary Dillett. When confronted, the men admitted to the theft and told Ortiz where he could find the electronic equipment. The company decided to press charges and today Matus and Dillett pled guilty to handling stolen goods. Magistrate Roberto Ordonez sentenced the men to pay five hundred dollars each and five dollars cost of court. If they do not pay the money by the twenty-third of April, they will spend six months behind bars.