Bahamian nationals Rohn Knowles and Kelvin Leach remain in pretrial detention at the Belize Central Prison tonight. The pair of stockbrokers, both employees of Titan International Securities, was expected in court on Wednesday for a bail application but did not show up because a removal order had not been prepared. Despite the adjournment, a case […]
Mexican national, Anabel Kumul, who is accused with the murder of her common-law-husband, twenty six year old Felix Alamilla, appeared for the third time in the courtroom of Magistrate Dale Cayetano. But her hearing was adjourned for November fifth. Kumul was informed by the magistrate that her next court appearance will be in San Pedro […]
Incarcerated stockbrokers, Kelvin Leach and Rohn Knowles, were scheduled to appear in Supreme Court this morning where bail applications were to have been made before Justice Denis Hanomansingh. But there was a hitch and it appears the duo will be spending far more time behind bars. The Bahamian nationals, wanted by U.S. authorities for their […]
As many as five persons were before the court in the past two days on charges relating to gang affiliation. Brandon Tillett, the son of Cyril McFoy who was murdered one week ago, was charged for Associating with a Criminal Gang. Also appearing before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser on Tuesday was Moses Gonguez, who […]
Brandon Tillett, aka B.E.T., the George Street Associate and gang member, returned to court this morning. Tillett is the son of fifty-six year old Cyril McFoy who was gunned down at the corner of Euphrates and Dean Streets and whose murder is believed to have sparked the violence in which two other men were killed. […]
A suspect was today arraigned for a murder which occurred three months ago in Belize City. Taylor’s Alley resident, Keyron Gibson, was before the courts for the June thirteenth murder of Tulio Caceres, a resident of the same area. This morning Gibson, who spent the long weekend in lockdown, was read a single charge of […]
On Friday, the Roman Catholic Diocese was granted an interim injunction preventing Jamaican dancehall artist Alkaline from performing in concert at the Sacred Heart College compound in San Ignacio Town. The application was sought after it came to Bishop Dorick Wright’s attention that the venue had been booked for a one-night event featuring the controversial […]
Following a spade of violence in which three persons were murdered in a matter of hours on Wednesday, the Prime Minister met with the police top brass and hosted a press conference. The P.M. committed additional patrols by the police and the B.D.F. on the streets and is seeking further funding to fight […]
Police are holding a third person behind bars presumably to stop further mayhem on the streets. He is Kareem Lopez, aka Robbery, who was charged today for causing public terror on Carnival Day. Allegations are that while on Douglas Jones Street, Lopez wantonly discharged a firearm in a public place and caused terror by […]
After spending months behind bars, Ranchito resident Ryan Jones appeared this morning in the Magistrate Court to answer to a charge of murder. Ryan is accused with the shooting death of his father, Hensley Jones, on New Year’s Day at his house in Ranchito. At his court appearance, however, police were unable to provide […]
After three days in lockdown, a construction worker was arraigned for arson before the Chief Magistrate, Ann Marie Smith, this morning. Thirty-nine year old Alden Sutherland is accused of setting on fire a 2008 Tacoma belonging to Hector Choj, the manager of JEC Apartment on Youth for the Future Drive. The incident happened on Sunday […]
Tonight, two Bahamian nationals are behind bars pending proceedings for an extradition request by the United States government. Rohn Knowles and Kelvin Leach are accused in a Belize billion dollar securities fraud and money laundering scheme. The two were named among six defendants indicted by US federal prosecutors in a New York court last week. […]
Thirty-seven year old Owen Alexander Parham, a vendor of the Cayo area was today convicted of one of five criminal offenses. Parham was facing a string of charges including attempted robbery, harm and aggravated assault upon Special Constable, James Stuart as well as resisting arrest. Prosecutor in the case Inspector Hector Rodriguez called two […]
In the courtroom of the Chief Magistrate, a cop, who is originally from Dangriga, was freed today and will be entitled to half of his pay withheld on interdiction and he may very well be reinstated to the Belize Police Department. Two counts of extortion against Police constable Dayton Sacasa were dismissed this morning. […]
A Muslim American national who has been living illegally in Belize for more than two years was detained on Tuesday evening while trying to board a flight to Atlanta, Georgia. He is seventy-one year old Mohammad In Ishmael Es-Sudan. After spending two nights in lock down at the police station, he was escorted to the […]
On Monday, we reported that both a criminal and an internal investigation have been launched by the Police Department into the shooting of a Baghdad Street resident over the weekend. According to police, an officer on duty pulled out his service weapon and shot fifty year old Kent Skeet while on an operation in Taylor’s […]
A and R was robbed on August twentieth, just before the close of business at around six o’clock. Five days after the robbery, security officer Leroy Ciego was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery. This morning, another man was arraigned for robbery. Police believe the alleged mastermind and gunman behind the theft is Kevin Bodden. […]
Twenty-three-year-old Nicholi Rhys, the son of a female police sergeant, is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being accused of robbing a man back in August of last month. Late on Monday afternoon, Rhys appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith and was read a single charge of robbery. Allegations made against […]
On Monday, October first, 2012, a young B.D.F. volunteer soldier, Clifford Isaac Cruz was killed on the compound of Militia Hall located near the Lord Ridge Cemetery in Belize City. After more than a year on remand, the man accused of his murder walked in April of this year. But today, five months later, a […]
Tonight, a cop is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after the D.P.P. handed down her directives to have him charged for an allege gunplay incident which is said to have occurred back in February of this year, between miles twenty-five and twenty-six on the George Price Highway. Police Constable, thirty-two-year-old Linsdale Blease, who is […]
In the early hours of the morning of January thirty-first, a collision between two boats ended the life of twenty-year old Benjamin Jerome Gentle Junior, a former Gwen Liz student. Gentle was being ferried from Crooked Tree to the Phillip Goldson Highway when he was killed; eight others were seriously injured but survived. It’s been […]
There was an attempted robbery on Monday morning at the Port of Belize. Police say two men tried to rob the establishment and that their investigations later led them to two suspects who were pursued in the Caesar Ridge Road area. The men were said to be carrying a firearm. When the cops arrived in the Caesar […]
In March of this year, fifty eight year-old businessman Phillip Gallaty was accused of reversing his double cab white Toyota Hilux Pickup truck into the front bumper of the vehicle of Traffic Magistrate, Stephanie Gillett. The Ford Escape SUV was parked on the shoulder of the Northern Highway in front of Friendship Restaurant and was […]
A Madisco employee was this morning convicted in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith for drug trafficking. He is Kent Mendez, who was jointly charged with two of his relatives, his older brother, Kevin Mendez and cousin, Jason Lewis. Allegations made by the Gang Suppression Unit are that on October seventeenth, 2013, […]
Nineteen-year-old Perfilio Rodriguez, a transgendered woman also known as “Vanessa Champagne Paris” was before the court today. It was the first appearance since being granted bail for allegedly assaulting Golda Orosco, the sibling of UNIBAM’s executive director Caleb Orozco. The incident reportedly happened on June twenty-ninth at a home on Zericote Street in Belize City […]
