A tearful Gregory Knox sobbed before the Senior Magistrate on Monday when he was accused of pulling a gun at a woman. But that did not spare him from being remanded to prison. Knox was charged with Aggravated Assault with a Firearm upon Ashanti Scott after it is alleged that he pointed a gun at her. […]
Also in court, a Belize City Tour guide was today charged for handling stolen goods after police allege that they found him in possession of stolen items belonging to Raymond Matus. Thirty-nine year old Austin Decosta, a resident of Castle Street in Belize City, appeared unrepresented before Magistrate Clive Lino and was read the single […]
An office assistant with the Christian Workers Union has been ordered to pay the court twenty-five thousand dollars after he took a guilty plea for ten counts of forgery which left a credit union account short of six thousand five hundred dollars. The embezzlement occurred back in 2007. Twenty-six year old Alex Reid was slapped with […]
Shortly before five o’clock on Wednesday evening, Dayton Sacasa, a police constable who is originally from the Benguche Area of Dangriga, but assigned to Belize City, was escorted to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court to be read two charges of extortion. Sacasa is the officer who was guarding the “holding cell” at Precinct two at […]
A twenty-two year old man from Caye Caulker is tonight on lock down at the Belize Central Prison after he was arraigned on ten counts of carnal knowledge of a fourteen year old girl. Jose Angel Novelo is accused of having sex with the minor many times between April and as recent as December eighth […]
Marsha Reid is the woman from Dangriga who was accused of murdering her common-law-husband, B.D.F. corporal Donovan Castillo. In the Dangriga Supreme Court this morning Reid was found not guilty by Justice Dennis Hanomansingh who tried the case as a judge sitting without a jury. Reid was accused of stabbing Castillo four times on the […]
Fabian Bain has twice been charged for manslaughter but today he was convicted in the Supreme Court for the 2006 shooting of Fortunato Chun. Chun was a KBH security guard who was at the time on duty at the WASA compound in Belize City when the incident happened. The motive of the shooting was the […]
And in the Belize City Courts, thirty year old Special Constable Joslyn Gill, has been granted bail of four thousand dollars after being charged with theft of two hundred and sixty dollars from Tyrell Hyde, the Belmopan resident who was allegedly ingeniously and brazenly shaken down by Gill, Reymundo Requena and Edgar Teul, on September […]
A decision by the Supreme Court on a constitutional challenge to repeal Section Fifty-Three of Belize’s Criminal Code remains pending, despite closing arguments in early May by high-powered attorneys representing Caleb Orozco and the Government of Belize, as well as the Council of Churches. The challenge seeks to have struck out a ten year prison […]
House Sergeant-at-Arms, thirty-one year old Brian “Yellow Man” Audinett, and Housing Inspector, thirty year old Allan Dale Kelly, appeared this morning in Magistrate’s Court for trial on charges of harm, assault, using threatening and insulting words, assaulting a police officer and wounding. The charges stem from an incident earlier this year on July twelfth at […]
A group of four, including a minor, two brothers and a friend were today before the court to answer to ammunition offenses after they were busted in the city allegedly in possession of three live rounds of nine millimeter ammunitions. They are twenty-year old Kenroy Willoughby, his older brother, twenty-four year old Julian Willoughby, along […]
In August of 2011, there was a violent confrontation on the streets of Belize City between armed police officers of the Gang Suppression Unit and residents of George Street who were mourning the loss of Charles Woodye, murdered one week prior. The altercation occurred at the post-funeral gathering at a house on George Street in […]
Each of the eighteen claimants is to be paid a portion of the total judgment, to be divided according to the evidence each presented. Those who accused the officers of abuse and brutality leading to injury and false imprisonment for sixty-two hours will be paid some twelve thousand dollars each and the others, who could […]
A police officer attached to the San Ignacio Police is tonight in big trouble following a report by a minor that he assaulted her. A fourteen year old student in the company of her aunt went to the San Ignacio precinct and made the report. The child claims that last Saturday morning, while sleeping on […]
A Honduran national who was granted sixteen days stay in Belize headed to court today on immigration offences. Thirty-eight year old Edwin Delgado Montoya caught the attention of the authorities when he went to the police station seeking help over the weekend. Montoya ran out of fuel when he was taking friends home after a […]
A man who was found guilty eleven days ago of attempted murder of the boyfriend of his ex, was sentenced today. Leslie Frazer was given an eight year prison term. But Justice Adolph Lucas told him today that he will only serve five years since the victim was the one who provoked the incident. Frazer, […]
A Punta Gorda man was convicted today in the Dangriga Supreme Court for the attempted murder of Moses Williams. Thirty-five year old Lawrence Cholom was tried in late November in a trial by judge alone in the court of Justice Denis S. Hanomansingh. Williams was stabbed once on August twenty-ninth, 2010 in Big Falls Village, […]
He initially pleaded not guilty to burglarizing the home of Traffic Officer, Kevaughn Jenkins, in January of this year, but on Tuesday of this week, forty-eight year-old Luis Romero thought twice before going to trial. Romero learnt that the most crucial evidence linking him to the burglary, his fingerprints had been lifted from the glass louvers at […]
Today, the woman who reportedly went to a high school and attacked a student over her younger sister was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. She is twenty-five year old Shandi Tillett. Tillett, who is also known as “Chucky,” was charged for a single charge of wounding. Allegations are that just before four o’clock […]
Dolphin Street resident, Alwin Gabb, who has been on remand for the past six years, was on trial for more than a week for murder. Today, he learned his fate in the Belize City Supreme Court of Justice Troadio John Gonzalez. Just after one o’clock, a jury of twelve stepped into the deliberating room to decide […]
A heated land dispute between the Young family and the Prime Minister’s law partner, Attorney Rodwell Williams, over a small plot on Cemetery Lane, has landed in the courts. In late October, the two families became embroiled in a bitter argument when Williams consented to have a food shack placed on the parcel of land. […]
According to Matura-Shepherd, it came as a complete surprise to her clients that Williams also had title to the property. Furthermore, it wasn’t until 2007 that he had applied for ownership of the land, unbeknownst to the Young family. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, Attorney for Yearwood Family “Interestingly, in 1998 Mr. Rodwell Williams Senior, the father, […]
Since the U.S.A. requested the extradition of well-known Belize City brothers, Mark and Gary Sewell, there have been three others who are facing a similar request. They include Rhett Fuller, Deon Bruce, and Fakhrul Alam Salim. Recently, Gary Sewell lost his battle as Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith ordered that he be handed over. Meanwhile […]
Justin ‘Ducky’ Lacroix, a promising young accountant, who was arraigned on Friday on fifty-eight counts of forgery, was able to meet bail today after spending the weekend at the Belize Central Prison. Lacroix, part of a ring which allegedly misappropriated a hundred and eighty thousand dollars from the Radisson Fort George Hotel, reportedly participated in […]
Thirty-four year old Leslie Frazier, charged with the attempted murder of Faron Waight, was today found guilty by Justice Adolph Lucas, after the conclusion of a trial without jury. The incident occurred between eleven p.m. and midnight on May twenty-ninth, 2011. Waight testified and told the court that while he was at his residence, at […]
