Gideon charged with burglary at Victoria Street home

Jonathan Gideon

Eighteen year old Jonathan Gideon, accused of breaking into a residence on Victoria Street, appeared in court today, where he was charged with burglary.  Reports are that on March twenty-third, Gideon, an unemployed of a Hensley Street address, entered the home of Elsworth Staine and stole a laptop and a personal computer, at a combined value of three thousand dollars.  During a police investigation into the theft Gideon took officers to a residence in Belize City where one of the machines was discovered.  He was subsequently charged for the offense.  Gideon was arraigned before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning and was granted bail in the sum of six thousand dollars, plus two sureties of three thousand dollars each.  The condition of his bail is that Gideon must stay away from the virtual complainant or else it will be revoked and he will be remanded to the Belize Central Prison.  He is to reappear in court on July second.