Also appearing in court was a man who was remanded to prison this morning after he was charged for attacking his own nephew on January twelfth. He is fifty-four year old Frank Garcia, of Oleander Street in the Saint Martin’s de Porres area. Garcia appeared unrepresented before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith and was arraigned […]
A family in Belize City was devastated today by the news that their loved one would not be coming home from court with them. Thirty-three year old Darrell Henry has been behind bars since December on firearm charges, but his case is far from typical. Henry was charged in December for possession of a firearm […]
In July of last year, twenty-eight-year-old Deon Bruce was arrested by Belize City police and held in detention at the Queen Street Precinct pending what his family believed would have been a summary extradition to the United States. Bruce is wanted in Chicago for a murder in which U.S. authorities say he was the alleged […]
On December twelfth, 2013, B.D.F. Soldier Abimael Carrillo, who had been serving the Belize Defence Force for almost two decades, was killed in a traffic mishap. Today, one of his own surviving colleagues, forty-three year old Juan Tuyub was arraigned for his death. Tuyub was charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless […]
His legal struggle against extradition to the United States lasted fifteen years, but tonight, Rhett Fuller is finally a free man. Following a decision handed down by Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington, the Belizean businessman walked out of the Minister’s chambers at Whitfield Towers in Belize City without shackles or police escort. Attorney Eamon […]
The decision by Minister Elrington was based on a submission to him by attorney Eamon Courtenay, which made the case that Fuller’s family would have disintegrated without his presence. He is a father of two sons and an autistic daughter, who during his incarceration, were in the care of his wife, Ann Marie. And today, […]
Since the scandal broke involving the illegal issuance of passports, nationality documents and visas, a number of foreign nationals have been caught by alert immigration officials with fake immigration documents. On Tuesday, a Tanzanian woman was promptly detained when she visited the Immigration department in Belize City posing as a Belizean from up north. Teena […]
Two brothers who claim they fled from their country, India, due to threats to their lives were caught illegally in Belize. They are thirty-one year old Kuldeep Singh, and his younger sibling twenty-eight year old Manjimdes Singh; both appeared in court today. Allegations are that on January eleventh, 2014, they were found travelling on […]
A teacher, who was accused of having sex with a minor since she was seven years of age, was today charged with seven criminal offenses including carnal knowledge and six counts of aggravated assault of an indecent nature. The alleged sexual act started back in 2008 and continued until she was twelve years. Today, the […]
Today in the courtroom of the Chief Magistrate, a Freetown Sibun resident was convicted after his fingerprints were lifted from a perfume bottle he came in contact with during a burglary at the home of well-known Hattieville resident, Douglas Hyde. The crime occurred last September at Hyde’s house located in the American New Site area […]
A Cuban national was today busted on arrival at the P.G.I.A. with documents that purported that she was a Panamanian national. Nairoby Aleyda Gonzalez Villareal who also goes by the name Deysi Reyes Avila and her son were caught with not one, but four passports. Reyes Avila who is a Cuban Mathematics teacher arrived on […]
The findings of the immigration scandal have still not been revealed but tonight we can report that a Haitian national was busted on Monday with a fake visa issued as recent as December in Haiti. Thirty-seven year old Sanon Vertus was busted with the fake visa when he arrived at the Phillip Goldson International Airport […]
A man from Burrell Boom has been charged for the shooting of another Boom resident. Adrian Myvette was shot at the entrance of the horse track in Burrell Boom over the weekend and today, twenty-four year old Ryan Gillett, a wine maker and caterer, was charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means […]
A car washer, who works at the parking lot located behind the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, was today in front of the court to answer to a single charge of theft. He is twenty-one year old Kenrick Longsworth, a resident of Belize City, who appeared this morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer for arraignment. […]
Also in the court, an electrician who was involved in a traffic accident back in October 2013 was today charged with several traffic offenses in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. The traffic accident took the life of a senior citizen, sixty-four year-old Patricia Johnson back on October twenty-second, 2013. Jason Grant, a resident of Faber’s […]
On New Year’s Day, many families generally celebrate by spending quality time together. But on New Year’s Day in Ranchito Village just outside Corozal, thirty-year-old Hensleigh Ryan Jones shot his father in the head three times, following an altercation. Hensley Jones miraculously survived the ordeal, and was rushed to the K.H.M.H. where he is currently […]
In news from the courts, two Hondurans caught living unlawfully in Belize were today charged with illegal entry and ordered to pay one thousand dollars each. But tonight, the men are behind bars after not being able to pay the fine. Twenty-five-year-old Jonnie Cabellero and twenty-year-old Neris Reyes, wasted no time and pleaded guilty to the […]
Also in court, a twenty-one year old man, who is being accused of assaulting a fifteen-year-old female, was today before the court with injuries he claims he sustained while in lockdown in police custody. Jorge Perez, a resident of Western Avenue, Belize City appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer wearing a bandage over his right […]
A Belize City youth has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison for robbing a man at gunpoint. Twenty-two-year-old Keron Pinto appeared before Magistrate Dale Cayetano this morning, where he was read a single charge of robbery. He pleaded not guilty to the offense, but due to the nature of the offense, bail was denied […]
A woman, who is accused of burglarizing the home of Farima Gordon, claims that it was a state of paranoia that caused her to enter the Faber’s Road home and steal nothing…that’s right nothing. Thirty-three-year-old Jennifer Tillett, a student of a Jane Usher Boulevard address, appeared before Magistrate Dale Cayetano, where she was read a […]
It took police over a year to make a second arrest in a shooting that occurred in Belize City back in October tenth, 2012 when two men attempted to kill a Belize City duo. Six days after the shooting, police charged one suspect but the second gunman remained on the run. That second suspect has […]
A senior citizen, seventy-five year old Gregory Lopez, was hit and killed on December fourth, 2013 on the Phillip Goldson Highway between miles six and seven. It has been twenty-seven days after the fatality and today, police took to court, thirty-six year old technician, Eldon Hendy, a resident of Isabella Bank, Belize District. Hendy appeared […]
A twenty-six year old man was convicted in court today for molesting a five year-old child in the city. Ian McNab appeared to be a bit disturbed but showed no remorse only saying that he was guilty of the crime when he appeared before Magistrate Dale Cayetano. McNab was accused of molesting the young child […]
A week ago, Denton Flowers was shot and police believe they have now cracked the case with the arrest of one of two suspects. For that shooting, nineteen year old maintenance worker Keithton Arana of Lavender Street in Belize City was arraigned with harm and abetment to grievous harm upon Flowers. Although Arana pleaded […]
A little over a hundred thousand dollars has been paid out to residents of George Street who were savagely attacked by members of the Gang Suppression Unit over two years ago. The compensation is the first of two installments, a settlement having been reached between government and the victims. While the lump sum is being […]
