A man who police claim confessed to burning down his aunt’s home in the Gungulung area of Belize City is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison. Twenty-seven year old Darrel Alvarez was arraigned in the Magistrate’s Court where he was slapped with a single count of arson. Allegations are that this past Tuesday, […]
Convicted robber, twenty six-year old Dillon Diamond is serving his first night of a ten year sentence for attempted robbery. The Taylor’s Alley resident is accused of holding up at three men and attempting to rob Geovanni Quijano of his cell phone. But he was caught in the act by a police mobile that pulled […]
Two cousins were remanded to prison today after they were charged in connection with a tire shop burglary. Ninety-six tires were stolen from Quality Used Tires on Central American Boulevard on August fifteenth and sixteenth and police believe that Henry and Rodrick Pitts are the persons responsible for the brazen burglary. Today, when they appeared […]
Over the weekend, a teenager found himself in big trouble with the law after he was first arraigned in the Cayo District for a murder which occurred in San Ignacio recently. Subsequently, he was transferred to Belize City to face two more criminal and indictable charges, including attempted murder and dangerous harm upon a teenager […]
Late this evening, forty-three-year-old Luis Gordon, a resident of Amara Avenue who attacked and chopped his own sister in September of last year, was this evening sentenced to five years imprisonment for grievous harm upon Janelle Gordon Gilharry. His trial for grievous harm concluded before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith where Gordon was unrepresented. The […]
In the Supreme Court, a major decision has been delivered about a sitting justice. Justice Courtney Abel handed down a decision last Friday on two claims: claim eighty three of 2013 filed by Dean Boyce and claim eighty five of 2013 filed by British Caribbean Bank Limited and Lord Michael Ashcroft. The claims challenged the […]
Justice Abel found “that the evidence put before the JLSC was capable of amounting to and therefore could have amounted to misbehavior. Likewise the question of inability to discharge the functions of the office related to the office of the Court of Appeal.” It is good news for the Claimants, says Attorney Magali Marin Young, […]
And in the Magistrate’s Court… A security guard of the A and R Store on the Phillip Goldson Highway was arraigned for conspiracy to commit robbery before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Twenty-eight year old Leroy Ciego is the first to be charged for the robbery, but it is believed he assisted in the […]
Robert Jeffries is tonight commencing a two-year sentence for handling stolen goods after being caught in possession of a laptop computer which was stolen from a law office in Belize City. Robert, who is the nephew of former Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries, is also the subject of a lengthy rap sheet for mostly offenses […]
Last week, Cayo cops detained nineteen year old Unitedville resident Steven Gomez for his involvement in the murder of Victor Vargas, of that same village. Gomez was questioned, released, and detained again. But today, it was another teenager who was charged for Vargas’ murder. Nineteen year old Joseph Vacario was arraigned this morning in San […]
Today, thirty-four-year-old Angel Dorado and nineteen-year-old Shaquille Baeza appeared in the courtroom of Magistrate Herbert Panton. The men, residents of the Mile Eight community, were charged separately for gang offences. Dorado was charged for professing to be a member of a gang, while Baeza was charged for displaying gang membership. Both men pleaded not guilty. […]
The aggravated assault case of notorious street figure, Jason Williams aka “Soup” began on Monday in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith. And today, the charge was dismissed. Williams was remanded earlier this year after he was accused in the shooting of two alleged George Street men, Tarique Cadle and Andrew Tate. He […]
Thirty-year-old Tyrone Smith was today sentenced to seven years in prison after he was found guilty of beating up a pregnant woman before snatching her purse. Smith, an unemployed of Raccoon Street Extension in Belize City, attacked twenty-year-old Scarlett Zelaya on October twenty-seventh, 2013 on a side street near the Lord Ridge Cemetery. Zelaya testified […]
Two Haitian nationals carrying passports with fake Belizean visas were busted by Immigration authorities at the Phillip Goldson Airport on Tuesday. The men, thirty-two-year-old Donald Gedeon and thirty-six-year-old Choubert Senat, arrived in Belize on the Avianca flight from El Salvador with Haitian passports. They attracted attention because they seemed to be lingering at the back […]
Today, Gilroy Usher Junior walked out of court after charges of aggravated assault and harm brought against him were thrown out. Magistrate Dale Cayetano did so because the complainant in the matter, Gabriel Casey took the stand and declined to testify. That would likely have been enough, but to make matters worse, the witness, a […]
The private prosecution of Elvin Penner, brought by COLA representatives Geovannie Brackett and Nedal McLaren, was thrown out at the Magistrate’s Court level on July twenty-fourth. Penner walked out of court a free man, but the party bringing the claim against him had twenty-one days to appeal. It went somewhat under the radar, but that […]
The best case scenario for the claimants would result in the summoning of Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie, along with his file containing all evidence gathered from the alleged investigation of Elvin Penner. The evidence would include all statements from witnesses, as well as files from the Immigration and Nationality sections. And if the claimants […]
Two men were shot at over the weekend and tonight one of the alleged shooters is behind bars on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was denied bail this afternoon by Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith. Twenty-two year old Devon Bailey, a Construction Worker of Raccoon Street in Belize City was slapped with […]
Thirty-eight year old Oscar Rubio was taken to the K.H.M.H. by the police after he was found drunk in the Belize Constitution Park in late July and two weeks later, he was laying dead at the morgue. Rubio died as a result of an injury he sustained during an altercation at the Conch Shell Bay […]
Kenrick Kevin Longsworth, the son of Lavern ‘Antichrist’ Longsworth, today joined his mother after he was remanded to the Belize Central Prison on a medley of charges. The twenty-one-year-old Belize City resident appeared in the courtroom of Magistrate Hettie Mae Stewart this morning, and was read charges of attempted murder, dangerous harm, use of deadly […]
This morning twenty-two year old Noe Gonzalez, nineteen year old Angel Cardenas and twenty-eight year old Mateo Pott were escorted back to the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court. On July ninth the trio were formally charged for the murder of seventy-one year old Ramon Cervantes. One day after, they were charged for his kidnapping. The three […]
After spending eleven plus years behind bars for a murder, Jamie Dawson learnt his fate today. He’s twice been tried for the December 2002 murder of Maurice Neal which took place at the Bismark Club in Belize City. In his first trial in February 2004, he was found guilty but that conviction was overturned and […]
Tonight, two-fifteen year old friends are on remand at the Wagner’s Youth Facility located on the compound of the Belize Central Prison until their next appearance in court on September twenty-ninth. Both were charged for allegedly having sex with a thirteen year old girl last Friday in Belize City. This afternoon, the duo was escorted to the […]
P.U.P. activist Albert Vaughan, who was arrested on Monday along with dozens of disgruntled B.M.L. employees for loitering and participating in an illegal gathering, was back in court this morning to answer to charges brought against him. Vaughn, you would recall, was covering a spur-of-the-moment protest in front of City Hall where angry sanitation workers […]
Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith will hand down her ruling in two weeks in the case of police corporal Darius Martinez who is accused of attempting to corrupt a public officer back in May 2011. During the trial which concluded on Thursday, GSU Officer, WPC Stacey Smith, told the court that she received a call from […]
