A twenty-six year old man who behaved inappropriately by touching a ten young girl on her rear was taken to court today. The incident took place on Sunday and Ashton Lambey told the minor not to speak of the matter. But the young girl reported it to her sister and mother and that landed him […]
Twenty-five year old Steven Young is serving his first night in prison for the attempted murder of a Lord’s Bank resident, who was stabbed during an altercation inside Ruba’s Bar this past Saturday. Young was arraigned before Magistrate Deborah Rogers for attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm upon Brandon Stevens. […]
Tarique Gillett and Lyson Cacho were arraigned in March and July 2015 for the murder of Michael Welch and the attempted murder of Kingsley Morrison. Last Friday, both were set free, but that freedom was short-lived because today they were rearrested and taken back to court. The latest evidence against the men is fingerprints lifted […]
A police officer is in trouble with the law tonight, facing a minimum of twelve years to life imprisonment if found guilty of the act of a sexual assault upon a minor. Twenty-one year old Darren Martinez was arraigned late this evening for sexually assaulting a girl as young as eight years. The despicable act […]
Three of four persons are in custody tonight for a shoot-out last Thursday night in the City. The intended target was Mark Vernon, a city resident. But it led to another shooting involving top cop, Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and officer in charge of south side team, who was in the area in […]
Three murder cases fell apart in court today. We start with forty-five year old Orlando Williams who was the first murder victim at the start of the New Year in 2013. Today, the suspect in his murder, twenty-three year old Akeem Humes, a known George Street associate, walked free. Williams was gunned down as he […]
A pair of men also walked free of the murder of Michael Welch and the attempted murder of Kingsley Morrison, who were both shot in the Saint Martin de Porres area of the City. The duo walked when their case file could not be located almost a year after their arrest so they had not […]
Twenty-year old Boyd Lopez is home tonight following his sentencing for the February eighteenth, 2015 traffic fatality that took the life of seventy year old Marie Knowles. Knowles was walking on the side walk on Baghdad Street in Belize City when Boyd, who did not possess a driving licence, hit her. The elderly woman sustained […]
It has been almost one year since a team of police officers took the village of Santa Cruz by storm during a predawn raid which resulted in the arrest of thirteen leaders. On Wednesday, Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith accepted a submission from Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl Lyn Vidal for another adjournment. The matter […]
Twenty-year old Boyd Lopez was initially charged and indicted for manslaughter in the traffic fatality that took the life of seventy year old Marie Knowles on Baghdad Street on February eighteenth. Lopez did not possess a driver’s license when he hit the elderly woman. When his case came up in the Supreme Court before Judge […]
Turning to the courts…On August twelfth, 2010, fourteen year old student of Edward P. Yorke High school Helen Yu was shot and killed during a robbery at her father’s shop on Iguana Street in Belize City. Three men were charged for her murder: Jermaine Matura, Arlington Drive and Egbert Miller. After a case management today, […]
Two nationals from Bulgaria appeared late in court this evening and were charged for theft from the Belize Bank. There was a delay in their arraignment because the court was looking for a translator. The duo is being implicated in an international scam in which they used fake ATM cards to withdraw cash from the […]
Aptula’s attorney says that they are in communication with the Belize Bank to settle the matter. The two Bulgarians allegedly visited the Albert and North Front Streets ATMs of the bank to conduct the fraudulent transactions. Aptula also pleaded not guilty to theft. Oscar Selgado, Attorney for Halid Yuksel Aptula “The police has only […]
During arraignment today, the police claimed that the scam begun on September seventh, 2015. The men were detained on Saturday and taken to their room at Easy Inn on the Phillip Goldson Highway, where one hundred and eleven credit cards which did not have the issuing bank or card holder names were discovered. Also found […]
After spending just over a week recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, on Monday afternoon, thirty-one year old Andy Bustillos was arrested and charged for the double murder of his ex-common-law wife, Miriam Mai and her sister-in-law, Daisy Miralda. On April thirtieth, Bustillos entered Betty’s Salon in Santa Elena to rekindle his […]
Another murder trial by judge ended with an acquittal today for the accused. In a no case submission, Reuben Price’s attorney, Simeon Sampson submitted that the only evidence the prosecution had against Price was an alleged confession statement which was not provided willingly so there was no evidence to substantiate the charge of murder. The […]
The prosecution, however, secured a conviction in the murder trial against Dionicio Salazar. On Friday in the Belmopan Supreme Court, Salazar was found guilty of the murder of Marlon Rivera. He was tried before Justice Antionette Moore in a trial without jury. The justice found that Salazar was the gunman who killed Rivera on June thirteenth […]
A Belize City taxi driver will stand trial in the June session of the Supreme Court for the attempted murder of a taxi operator. At the end of a preliminary inquiry today, the court found that there is enough evidence to commit Frank Brown for the June thirtieth, 2016 attempted murder of thirty-one year old […]
A brazen thief stole a 2014 Mazda pick-up truck from Police Superintendent Selvin Tillett who heads the Orange Walk formation. The incident happened back on February fourteenth; Tillett was robbed at gunpoint of the vehicle which was parked in front of his house on Humble Street, Benque Viejo del Carmen. Police arrested twenty-one year old […]
Late this afternoon, a teenager of Antelope Street Extension was arraigned in the Belize City Family Court for Wednesday’s broad daylight murder of Troy Cole. Cole was riding his bicycle on Gibnut Street, a stone’s throw away from where he lived, when he was accosted by a gunman. Late that night, Ryan Thompson was detained […]
Almost a month ago, Devon Sankey was freed of the murder of Edward Albert Robinson and the attempted murder of notorious street figure Jamil Betancourt which occurred in October 2015 in the North Creek area, Belize City. Sankey was charged along with Ryan Alvarez who remained on remand. At the conclusion of a PI, the […]
Nineteen-year old Akeem Kirklin Trapp Junior will stand trial at the June session of the Supreme Court for the murder of eighteen year old Ian Adolphus which occurred on February twenty-fourth 2015 on Gill Street, Belize City. That is the result of a preliminary inquiry that concluded today during which Trapp made attempts to challenge […]
The murder trial of Ervin Reneau, accused of the November, 2010 murder of two Belize City men, Security Guard Edgar Ayala and David Longsworth is nearing an end. Both were fatally shot and killed during a robbery that turned murder. Ayala was robbed of his firearm, and it is alleged that because Longsworth witnessed the […]
A theft that occurred at the Treasury Department in a two year period between 2007 and 2009 landed three women before the court. The case against pension clerk, Monica Escarpeta, along with her mother sixty- year old Yvonne Bevans and her friend, Rhea Pennell concluded today in the Supreme Court before Justice Troadio Gonzalez. Escarpeta […]
This morning, twenty-year-old Fernando Guerra, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for a charge of burglary. The butcher is accused of stealing four knives, a fan, a meat grinder and a hammer….all valued at two thousand dollars from Shana Humes meat shop, Seleny’s, located on Mahogany Street. Guerra pleaded not guilty to the […]
