Tonight, two of three Belize City youths, Dwayne Evelyn and Lloyd Leslie Junior are on remand at the Belize Central Prison accused of committing an aggravated assault with a firearm upon a Belize City resident. A third gunman, a sixteen year old, was mistakenly shot when the firearm malfunctioned and he is expected to be […]
Eleven undocumented Salvadoran nationals are tonight the involuntary guests of the Immigration Department after they were picked up in the Orange Walk district. According to Police, they were conducting a routine patrol at around nine Saturday morning on the Chan Pine Ridge road when they observed four females, one adult male and five minors walking […]
The alleged robbers of the First Caribbean Bank heist were granted bail today when they appeared in the Supreme Court before Justice Antonette Moore. All four men, Patrick Jones, Emmerson Skyers, Jareth Crawford and Jermaine Belgrave, were each granted bail of eight thousand dollars, plus two sureties of four thousand dollars. They were given a […]
A Belize City man is spending his first night of what could possibly be six years behind bars on a conviction for drug trafficking. Sixty-one-year-old James Alvarez appeared unrepresented before Magistrate Ladonna John today and was charged for possession of a controlled drug with the intent to supply for drug trafficking. On Tuesday, Police searched […]
George Street associate, twenty-three-year-old Shane Harris Senior has been charged for the shooting of a seventeen-year-old on Sunday morning. The minor was injured in a drive-by shooting at the corners of Mapp and Cleghorn streets in the city. This morning, Harris Senior appeared unrepresented before Acting Chief Magistrate Patricia Arana and charged for attempted murder, […]
A forty-five-year-old Belize City taxi man stands accused of raping a forty-one-year-old woman from the Belama area. Today, Michael Andrews Senior appeared unrepresented before Acting Chief Magistrate, Patricia Arana, where he was read a single charge of rape. The court prosecutor, Inspector Hector Rodriguez, objected to bail on the severity of the charge and that […]
In May, Efrain Alpuche and Saulito Vasquez were arrested by Orange Walk Police and charged for allegedly burning cane fields in San Lorenzo belonging to Belize Sugar Industries Limited. But on Friday, all charges were dropped on the instructions of the office of the D.P.P. The reason given is a lack of evidence, as a […]
Forty-two-year-old James Rhaburn, accused of killing Michael Richard Ysaguirre by beating him to death in June 2014, remains in police custody tonight pending a charge of murder. Ysaguirre is the deceased sibling of former Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya. The prime suspect, a resident of Conch Shell Bay, has been in pretrial detention for the […]
Tonight, one of two men accused of the murder of businessman Wendelin Reimer, who was shot and killed during a robbery at Eagle One Hardware in October 2011, is home free after being acquitted of the charge earlier this evening. Twenty-five-year-old Ernest Staine and twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Swazo were jointly charged for the incident which occurred […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Dean Perez, a police officer on interdiction, is out on bail after his attorney Leeroy Banner was successful in applying for a stay of execution of his prison sentence. On July twenty-fourth, Perez was found guilty of the theft of a cell phone, as well as six hundred dollars in cash from Salvadoran national, […]
Construction worker Kareem Smith, who is no stranger to the law, is tonight behind bars on remand. According to reports, on July fifteenth, Smith allegedly pulled a gun on his estranged girlfriend Cordelia Pou and threatened to kill her. He appeared unrepresented in Court today and explained that Pou was outside to withdraw the charge […]
A George Street fisherman is out of pocket tonight after the Magistrate’s Court slapped him with three separate fines. Nine months ago, thirty-eight-year-old Jorge Zetina was found with fourteen undersized lobster tails, sixty-six undersized conch and two soft-shelled lobsters, offences under the Fisheries Act. He would have been charged back then, but he never showed […]
A man, who was allegedly shot by police following reports that he was damaging electrical wires and pipe lines at A&R compound, was today arraigned on a single charge of Damage to Property. Robert Flores was escorted to court after being discharged from the hospital. He pleaded not guilty, saying he was shot twice on […]
Eighteen-year-old Jahmy Belgrave and twenty-year-old Ernest Gladden were jointly charged with robbery when they appeared unrepresented in court today before Magistrate Hettie Mae Stewart. Both men pleaded not guilty to the charge of robbery, but due to the nature of the offense they were denied bail and remanded to the Belize Central Prison until September fifteenth. […]
Forty-two year old Lincoln Moguel, an unemployed former taxi driver was remanded to prison today for a charge of burglary after he pleaded not guilty. On Monday, August third, Carla Cleland reported to police that Moguel entered her home in Belama with the intent to cause her bodily harm. She told police that she arrived […]
This afternoon, a sixteen year old minor was arraigned for Unlawful Sexual Intercourse at the Family Court. The minor was allegedly stabbed on Monday when the father caught him sexually assaulting his thirteen year old daughter. After receiving treatment, the underage boy was escorted to court for arraignment. No plea was taken from him, but he […]
In June 2014, a prosecutor with the Municipal Court was arrested and charged for two firearm offenses after he claimed he stopped a friend from committing a serious crime by taking his gun into safe keeping. Joseph Nunez was charged for Kept Firearm and Ammunition without a Gun License. But that is now behind him […]
A Hattieville resident is out on bail after he was charged with the offense of Burglary with the intent to rape his thirty-five year old neighbour, whom he knew for years. Robert Mejia was arraigned today before newly appointed Magistrate, Deborah Rogers. The alleged incident occurred on June twenty-eighth, 2015. In court, Mejia pleaded not […]
As the CIBC First Caribbean Bank changes hands, five men have been charged in connection with the daring bank robbery this past Friday at the First Caribbean International Bank at the San Cas Plaza. All five men, including four who are well known to the law, were charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery […]
A jury of five men and four women found former U.D.P. Orange Walk mayor, Ravell Gonzalez guilty of two counts of causing death by careless conduct. The thirty-seven year old was sentenced for a traffic fatality that took the life of two year old Martita Lopez and Manuel Coto on miles thirty-five on the Phillip […]
Also this morning, businessman Chris Rosado, the owner of the popular Thirsty Thursday Restaurant and Bar located on Newtown Barracks, was found guilty of wounding his ex- brother-in-law, Sergio Quan. Rosado narrowly escaped jail time after Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith referred to Rosado’s actions as “vigilante justice.” On November twenty-third, 2014, Rosado visited the […]
Attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd was ordered today to pay three thousand dollars to Court after Justice Courtney Abel determined that she had breached the confidentiality of a court-connected mediation session held in February. The mediation in question, resolved now, was between grassroots movement BGYEA and the Government of Belize. Matura-Shepherd gave an interview to the media […]
Well-known political mouthpiece Easy Glen, formally known as Goldburn Adolphus, was arraigned today before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith for attempting to assault a police officer with an empty bottle. During his indictment however, Adolphus suffered an epileptic fit, falling to the ground and hitting his head so hard his dentures popped out of his […]
Twenty-six year old Oren Vaughan is tonight on remand for committing an aggravated assault with a firearm upon his ex-girlfriend, Sharon Wade. Wade, a Corozal resident, reported to police that she was at a friends’ house in the city when her ex-boyfriend, Vaughan, arrived at the yard and cranked what appeared to be a firearm […]
An inmate was busted with cannabis while he was inside a courtroom. Twenty-two old Kevin Bodden managed to beat a murder rap a year ago, but was recently convicted of Grievous Harm and sentenced to three years imprisonment. But Bodden is now looking at another year behind bars after pleading guilty to possession of a […]
