In May 2014, a Bowen and Bowen employee was robbed of one thousand five hundred dollars. Today, he requested no further court action against the man he had positively identify as his jacker and that man walked free from the offense of robbery. At ten this morning, Delroy Allen, who has been on remand since […]
Kenroy Young, a former UB student, was convicted of Forgery. Young was accused of cashing over ten thousand dollars in cheques from Regent Insurance Co. Ltd., where he worked. He was indicted on Tuesday on fifteen counts, but that number of counts was revised and he was re-indicted for five counts of Uttering a False […]
Also in court this morning, a forty-eight year old mother and her thirty year old daughter, both employed as school wardens in Belize City, were arraigned on a charge of drug trafficking after police found a bag with one hundred and eight grams of weed. Rosita Polanco, and her daughter, Doreen, were arraigned before Chief […]
Two brothers have been arraigned for Saturday’s murder of B.D.F. volunteer, Denver Villafranco. The siblings, Orlando and Phil Tyrone Staine from the Saint Martin De Porres area appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith today after they were charged for the violent and cold blooded homicide. Villafranco was chopped to death near the Complex building […]
In late 2009, the then E. P. Yorke Teacher, Cordel Gonzalez, was charged with two counts of Carnal Knowledge upon a fourteen year old student. He lost his job after a video tape surfaced purportedly showing him engaged in a sexual act with the young girl. But today in court, the charges ended in a […]
On Friday night in the Orange Walk Supreme Court, the murder re-trial of well known street figure, Mark Vega ended in his acquittal. A jury of twelve found thirty-one year old Vega not guilty of the June thirteenth, 2002 murder of Susan Petkau. At the time, she was travelling with her husband Enrique, when she […]
A cop from Independence who has been charged for having sexual intercourse with a minor appeared before the Supreme Court today. Patrick O’Brien was charged this week and while it takes up to two weeks for a bail application to be heard, O’Brien was fortunate to be granted one today. He appeared before Justice Troadio […]
Now to the courts…the case by the Financial Intelligence Unit against two Bahamians, Kelvin Leach and Rohn Knowles, for failure to declare in excess of ten thousand Belize dollars resumed this morning and before noon, the prosecution closed its case. When the case adjourned previous to today, Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser questioned the integrity of […]
Four men were arraigned this morning in the Orange Walk Magistrate Court for drug possession and trafficking of forty pounds of heroin, worth ten million dollars. It follows a huge bust by the Anti-Drug Unit of the police department in front of a bar at the South End entrance of Corozal Town. There was no […]
While no one has been charged for the murder of “Pete” Ayuso, a prison inmate was this afternoon arraigned for a murder that happened five years ago. Twenty-nine year old Lorenzo Smith Junior is serving a ten year prison term for arson and was soon to be released when his past caught up with him. […]
But in the south, there’s a complicated story in Independence village which we’ve been following for the past week – one which involves a Policeman, a minor, and to some extent, a jealous wife. Independence Police haven’t had much to say when we’ve contacted them, but we note that the Police sitrep for today does […]
Twenty-three year old Hattieville resident, Gian Stiane, is behind bars tonight on the first day of a three year conviction. Staine appeared before Magistrate Herbert Panton on a charge of drug trafficking. He is accused of having one hundred and three grams of cannabis for the purpose of supplying it to another person. Staine pleaded […]
A week-long session in the Supreme Court of Jamaica commenced earlier today, following a lawsuit filed in 2014 by Professor Brendan Bain. The litigation involving the University of the West Indies is the result of an apparent violation of due process when he was removed as head of the institution’s Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Network. […]
Angel Dorado today picked up a third conviction in less than six months in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for drug trafficking. At eleven this morning, Dorado was found guilty of trafficking seventy-nine grams of cannabis found in a container in his possession. Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, who heard the matter, concluded that Dorado […]
In December 2014, forty-four year old mother, Olympia King, of Saint Joseph Street, Belize City, was found guilty of cultivation of marijuana and possession of a pipe used for marijuana smoking. But she was spared from going to jail when the Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser refrained from imposing a sentence immediately. She did advice that […]
Following the opening of the Supreme Court, a number of cases were dealt with. Forty-five year old Alvin Jones, who had been in police custody since last week Thursday, the day after his common-law wife made a report of domestic dispute against him, was charged with Common Assault upon Michelle Ortiz. When Jones was read […]
Nineteen year old Porfilio Rodriguez also known as Vanessa Champagne is home tonight with relatives after spending the Christmas behind bars. Champagne spent plenty time last year before the courts but tonight he is out on bail on his latest charge of Burglary. His application was heard in the Supreme Court before Justice Troadio Gonzalez, […]
He is already serving a five-year jail term for firearm and ammunition offenses and will now spend his thirty-eighth birthday behind bars because Jason Williams was convicted today and got an additional five year jail term for theft. Williams was accused of stealing from Euphrates Auto Rentals owner, Robert Wagner, a 2007 Kia Sportage SUV […]
Turning to the courts: A Belize City car dealer was nabbed at the Phillip Goldson International Airport on Monday afternoon in possession of seven thousand dollars in US currency and nine dollars and fifty seven cents in Belize currency. Since he had in excess of ten thousand Belize dollars, he was charged with the offense […]
A Honduran national who resides in Minnesota, U.S.A., but was visiting Belize and staying on La Isla Bonita, San Pedro was busted with a “roach,” which is a small amount of weed, totaling point nine grams. Mario Silva Brown was busted on January fifth, 2015 and today due to the unavailability of a Magistrate in […]
Today, under heavy security with police armed with M-sixteen rifles, Troy Deon Hyde, of Curl Thompson Street, Belize City, was taken to court for arraignment. At eight-ten this morning, when he was first brought to court by CIB personnel in their private vehicle, word spread on the streets that gunmen would cause trouble as […]
It’s not exactly a New Year’s honor, but a Belize City man does have the distinction of being the first to be convicted of theft in 2015. Today twenty-three year old Lincoln Moralez appeared in court number two, where he was charged stealing a cell-phone belonging to one of his relatives. It happened on New […]
Forty-five-year-old Vanzie Lamb was arraigned this morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser on a single charge of rape. The indictment succeeds an allegation by a twenty-two-year-old woman that she was sexually assaulted by Lamb in the early hours of Boxing Day. According to the victim, she was walking along Antelope Street Extension sometime after twelve […]
A fifty-two year old cop is tonight out on bail after he was charged for allegedly attacking his common law wife and harming her with a knife at their Ladyville home. PC Ezzart Anthony was arraigned this morning before Magistrate Dale Cayetano for Aggravated Assault Harm upon his common-law wife, Vilma Pech. The incident occurred […]
The trial for two Bahamian men, Kelvin Errol Leach and Rohn Michael Knowles continued today before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser after a month-long adjournment. Leach and Knowles are accused of failing to declare more than ten thousand dollars in cash before they attempted to board a private plane. The prosecution is now headed by lead […]
