Prison escapee arrested in Dangriga

A fugitive from justice is back behinds bars tonight, more than a hundred miles from where he escaped police custody. Twenty seven year old Ernest Hinds was captured in the Havana area of Dangriga during a predawn raid this morning. He was immediately transported to Belize City and brought before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb. He was sentenced to three months in jail for the November twenty-third escape and read the seven and a half year sentence handed down to him during his absence for a robbery conviction. On November twenty eighth, then Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord found Hinds and Joseph Almendarez guilty of the March 2006 armed robbery of Henry’s Bar on Central American Boulevard.