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In August 2021, Shane Bradley was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder prior to being detained for murder. Earlier today, a preliminary inquiry commenced before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser who determined that based on a prima facie case has been established against the forty-year-old accused murderer. Bradley, who appeared unrepresented in court, will stand trial […]
Written on January 31, 2023 | Posted in
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Late this evening, just before five p.m., day three of the trial against former Corporal of Police Kareem Martinez resumed. Three more witnesses were called to the stand by the prosecution to give their account of what happened on the night of July fourteenth, 2021. Also present in court were relatives of the accused, as […]
Written on January 30, 2023 | Posted in
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In an effort to dispose of the case as quickly as possible, on Saturday, January twenty-eighth, Justice Antoinette Moore held a virtual court proceeding. It is not common, but it can be done. It was used to present statements from witnesses who the court believes do not have to take the stand, but their statements […]
Written on January 30, 2023 | Posted in
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At the end of today’s proceedings, Justice Moore informed the defense and attorneys for the crown that she would like to take Wednesday’s session to the location where the incident occurred in Placencia. It is referred to as a “locus.” You would recall that a similar exercise was conducted in the murder trial of Danny […]
Written on January 30, 2023 | Posted in
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A youth who is known to the law has been accused of robbing two gas attendants at gunpoint. Eighteen-year-old Aaron Chavez, who got into trouble while he was out on bail for another criminal matter, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrates’ Court on two counts of robbery. This was after two gas attendants were […]
Written on January 30, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-five-year-old Jose Raul Pineda, a construction worker of Belize City, appeared unrepresented in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court earlier today where he confessed to stealing thirty-eight thousand, five hundred dollars in cash from his mother. It is alleged that sometime between December twentieth, 2022 and January third, 2023, he stole twenty-five thousand dollars in cash […]
Written on January 30, 2023 | Posted in
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The trial of Kareem Martinez, charged with the manslaughter of fourteen-year-old Laddie Gillett, began today before Justice Antoinette Moore in the Dangriga Supreme Court. Gillett was shot and killed on the night of July fourteenth, 2021 in Placencia Village. There are more than a dozen witnesses who will be called to give testimony in the […]
Written on January 27, 2023 | Posted in
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A man who was accused of the unlawful sexual assault of a twelve-year-old girl is spending his second night as a free man after he was found not guilty of the charge. Belize City resident, Charles Brown was unrepresented in court for his trial but managed to convince the court that he was innocent of […]
Written on January 27, 2023 | Posted in
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It’s the eve of the commencement of the manslaughter trial for former Police Corporal Kareem Martinez in Dangriga. It’s the jurisdiction where eighteen months ago, on July fourteenth, 2021, fourteen-year-old Laddie Gillett was shot and killed by Martinez in Placencia. Last Saturday, the Justice for Laddie Foundation organized a symposium ahead of the trial where […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-three-year-old Shania Dominguez, a recruit with the Belize Police Department, has been charged under the Cyber Crime Act. It is alleged that the resident of Biscayne Village, who appeared unrepresented in Court Number Six, used a computer system to transmit data that is obscene and vulgar. The intent was purportedly to humiliate, harass and cause […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Members of rival Belize City gangs called a truce in court earlier today after they chose not to proceed with criminal charges against each other. Esmir Garrido, a convicted member of the Rocky Road Bloods, is accused of attacking and stabbing thirty-five-year-old Hilberto Ruiz on Wednesday morning in the vicinity of Krooman Lagoon. The incident […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-seven-year-old Andel Jamaal Alvarez was discharged from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital earlier today, eleven days after he was shot by police in Punta Gorda. Alvarez has been left paralyzed following the incident, but that did not stop prosecutors from charging him with six counts, including aggravated assault, firearm related offenses and handling stolen goods. […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Forty-three-year-old Elvis Polanco, a businessman from San Pedro, was shot and killed in November 2022 by a pair of men, including a former police officer, as well as a police constable who was on interdiction from the department. The motive of the deadly attack on Polanco is believed to have been robbery, as he was […]
Written on January 24, 2023 | Posted in
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A Colombian student on vacation in Belize found himself in trouble with the law after he was charged with failure to produce himself to an immigration officer upon entering the country. But the charge was dismissed and the student, thirty-two-year-old Ivan Gonzez remains in custody until he can leave Belize on his own. Gonzez was […]
Written on January 24, 2023 | Posted in
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On Saturday at the Radisson, a Youth for Change Symposium was successfully organized by the Justice for Laddie Foundation. Family and friends, as well as persons concerned about killings at the hands of law enforcement officers, gathered for the forum. There was space provided for persons to express their grief and to determine the way […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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With the passing of Vivian Ramnarace, a third victim in the fatal December thirty-first attack, many are questioning the strength of the witness statement that was given to investigators prior to her death last Sunday. According to ComPol Williams, the police department remains committed to working the case with a view to successfully prosecute the […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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A police officer who was on interdiction and a former policeman have been charged jointly for the murder of forty-three-year-old Elvis Polanco. The San Pedro businessman was robbed, before being shot and killed allegedly by the two men who are now in custody. Today, Edward Moraga and Winfield Mortis were arrested and charged for the […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Last Thursday, we reported that Berkeley Street resident Adrian Hernandez was arraigned for the murder of Emert “Motty” Flowers, a sixty-two-year-old tour guide who was shot dead on December twenty-seventh, 2022 at his home on Racecourse Street in Belize City. Since then, residents as well as the mother of Hernandez are saying that Hernandez was […]
Written on January 17, 2023 | Posted in
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Two men convicted of the April 2018 murder of Belize City businessman, Oscar Rosado, Senior, were sentenced today in the Belize City Supreme Court. Brandon Hughes received a life sentence for the crime, while Jose Gomez was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment. Hughes will be eligible for parole after serving thirty years and Gomez will […]
Written on January 13, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-nine-year-old Samuel August Senior, the father accused of killing his five-year-old son and the little boy’s grandmother, has been sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. The lengthy sentence was handed down by Justice Susan Lamb earlier today. In court, the presiding judge informed August that because he took two lives, the judgment must reflect the […]
Written on January 13, 2023 | Posted in
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According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, the witnesses who cooperated with the investigation into the accident that killed Fareed Ahmad, testified in court that there wasn’t a third person inside the sports utility vehicle that night. He says that testifying to the contrary, all these many years later, would only call into question the […]
Written on January 10, 2023 | Posted in
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It was all the uproar back in 2016 when it was discovered that attorney Sharon Pitts and Andre Vega, son of former Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega, benefited from an outrageous land deal for private properties that were sold not far from the Haulover Bridge. The prime piece of real estate amounted to two acres. […]
Written on January 6, 2023 | Posted in
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The case, according to Elrington, was clear-cut and straightforward. He says that after poring over the facts presented, it would appear that in the absence of evidence of wrongdoing, the claim against Pitts was driven by an intent to do harm to her reputation. Hubert Elrington, Attorney-at-law “There is absolutely no technicality involved in […]
Written on January 6, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-four-year-old Gilbert Goodger has been sentenced to two years in prison, while twenty-four-year-old Mark Waight is on remand at the Belize Central Prison. The pair was busted this morning while double riding on a bicycle near Victoria Street and Barrack Road. In their possession was a firearm loaded with five rounds of ammunition. Both men […]
Written on January 6, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-three-year-old Steven Allen Vernon, a construction worker of San Mateo area, San Pedro also appeared before Magistrate Mannan this morning where he was read a single charge of being a member of a gang. It is alleged that Vernon is a member of the San Juan Bloods, a gang on the island town that is […]
Written on January 6, 2023 | Posted in
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