Waste Control equipment; about $29,000 stolen

Mark Neal

Mark Neal, of a Freetown Sibun address, appeared in court this morning to answer to charges of theft and handling stolen goods valued at almost twenty-nine thousand dollars. Dale Pascasio, Operations Manager, of Belize Waste Control alleged that between August and September ninth, 2012, Neal stole an assortment of equipment from his farm in the Freetown Sibun Area, amounting to a total of twenty-eight-thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Neal was additionally slapped with one count of handling stolen goods after the police found a number of Pacasio’s items at a recycling company where Neal allegedly took them to pawn. Neal, who was unrepresented, pleaded not guilty to the two charges. He told the court that he was caretaker of the farm. Senior Magistrate, Sharon Frazer offered Neal bail in the sum of fifteen-thousand dollars plus one surety of the same amount. Neal is set to reappear in court on November twenty-second, 2012.