Twenty-two year old Nicholi Rhys is no stranger to the courts and this morning he was back to answer a charge of Handling Stolen Goods. Rhys has beaten a murder charge and has pending charges before the courts for harm and Possession of Controlled Drugs. But today, Rhys was before Magistrate Hettie Mae Stewart in […]
Less than a month ago, Belize City Stevedore, Jermaine Ottley, a resident of Allenby Street claimed that the Gang Suppression Unit had used excessive force on him. But this morning, Ottley was before the courts on a Drug Possession charge which soon lead to another charge. Ottley was first arraigned for a single count of […]
A tenant who clashed with his landlord found himself before the court this morning. Elrich Trench was arraigned in the court of the Chief Magistrate, Ann Marie Smith, for two counts of Aggravated Assault and Uttering Threatening Words upon Everett Davis. The alleged incident happened this past Sunday in Belize City. Trench claimed in court […]
Following a family dispute in the city on Friday afternoon, police arrested and charged a deportee for the offense of Attempted Murder and Grievous Harm upon his own brother-in-law. Last Friday, thirty-seven year old Roberto Gilharry, a boat captain and his wife, Janelle Gordon, sustained injuries and police believe the man who inflicted the injuries […]
A young woman accused of killing three of her children will appear in court on September seventeenth to stand trial on three counts of murder. On April twenty-seventh twenty-two year old Felicia Chen allegedly walked her four children into the sea at Belizean Beach and held three of them underwater until they were dead. The […]
A lone gunman managed to deprive James Brodies and Company of over forty thousand dollars in cash over the weekend, but police now believe they have the man who carried out the heist. The suspect has been identified as twenty-four old mechanic, Sheldon Stanley Sosa, a resident of Albert Street who lives in proximity of […]
Thirty-one year old Darrell “Tutsi” Usher, the son of well-known P.U.P. Port Loyola Candidate, Gilroy Usher, was today set free when Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith struck out a charge of Wounding. Usher was accused of beating up teacher Christine Neal in Hattieville. Neal did not show up in court today and the Chief Magistrate […]
Three of four Belizeans who are presently fighting their extradition to the United States were before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith today. They are Gary Seawell, Fakhnul Salim and Deon Bruce. The cases of Salim and Bruce were adjourned for a later date, but arguments were submitted in respect of Seawell. Attorneys Illiana Swift and […]
A Belize City construction worker is on remand tonight for the offense of Burglary. Forty-one year old Daun Anthony Myers is accused of burglarizing the house of Cannon Leroy Flowers located on North Front Street. Allegations are that Myers entered Cannon Flowers house and stole jewellery amounting to a value of one thousand seven hundred […]
Thirty-five year old Jose Ricardo Hernandez, a driver and resident of Muhammadali Street in Belize City was also remanded to the Belize Central Prison this evening after he was slapped with a single charge of Aggravated Assault upon Aris Serrano, a bus driver. Hernandez appeared before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton and was read a single […]
In court today, her attorney, Simeon Sampson claimed that she was staying at her father’s home San Ignacio Town, but police came up empty-handed despite several attempted to apprehend her. She was finally detained last week and today formally charged for Abetment to Commit Murder. Bail was denied and she was remanded to the Central […]
A fire at an apartment complex on Canondale Street in Lake Independence on Thursday nearly claimed the lives of two children, three year old Shanika Reneau and four year old Shevaun Reneau. If not for the heroic actions of one man, we would tonight be lamenting the tragic deaths of the toddlers trapped in their […]
The case of former Belize Football Federation President, Bertie Chimilio, for unpaid income taxes amounting to thirty-three thousand dollars continued today in the court of Magistrate Leslie Hamilton. Testifying was main witness, Ann Castillo, who shed light on the discussions and subsequent assessment that the department undertook to determine Chimilio’s income. At the end of […]
The former president of the Football Federation of Belize, Bertie Chimilio, was summoned to court this morning. The Income Tax Department is attempting to collect over thirty thousand dollars which it claims Chimilio owes the department. But the case was adjourned because a witness did not appear. The department says Chimilio owes them thirty-three thousand […]
Also in court today, was forty year old Felicito Sho of Mango Creek, who is accused of raping a sixteen year old Belize City girl. Sho was arraigned before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton for a single charge of Rape which allegedly occurred on May first. Prosecutor, Kenard Clark, objected to bail on grounds that there is […]
A Guatemalan fisherman pleaded guilty to Illegal Fishing in the Blue Hole Natural Monument when he appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. Forty-six year old Elias Chavez was arraigned before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton this morning. Chavez, who was unrepresented and spoke little English, was provided with a translator through whom he pleaded guilty to […]
Magistrate Hamilton also dealt with the case of a woman who works as a Data Entry Clerk. Jacqueline Bermudez, a resident of Ben Bow Street, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for one count of Wounding upon Shaquille Perrera and one count of Committing a Mischievous Act. In pleading guilty, she told the […]
Two neighbors will be spending their first night at the Central Prison. The Gang Suppression Unit, on Monday detained a Belize City woman and a man who live next to each other, with almost eighty pounds of weed. Thirty-one year old Therese Elijio of Daisly Harley Street, who lives in the apartment where the first […]
A Belize City resident told the court this morning on arraignment that he is afflicted with HIV AIDS and had to steal for medication. Thirty-four year old construction worker, Kenroy Brown, admitted to stealing a two hundred and fifty dollar bicycle which he intended to sell and use the money to buy his medication. Allegations […]
On Monday, the Gang Suppression Unit made a surprise raid at Antelope Street Extension; it yielded them some eighty pounds of marijuana. This afternoon, the GSU executed a search at the house of Michael Anderson located at twenty-four Guerrero Street in the Port Loyola Area of Belize City. Anderson was not at home, but four […]
A fifty-six year old Belize City man appeared in court this morning following an allegation of sexual abuse made by a fifteen year old minor. Reports are that the minor was found naked inside a house in the Saint Martin’s De Porres area of Belize City when police arrived. The accused is Errol White who was […]
Today arguments continued at the Supreme Court in the extradition case of Mark Seawell. The US has applied for Seawell’s extradition on the grounds that he and his brothers operated a drug trafficking ring between Belize, Mexico and the US between 1994 and 1997. It has been a long road for the accused man who […]
Forty-five-year-old Wayne Welch, a taxi driver of a Rivero Street address, is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being unable to meet bail, following a charge of aggravated assault. On August twelfth, thirty-year-old Tanya Matura reported to police that Welch, who is her common-law husband, arrived at their home shortly before one […]
A Belize City hair braider, whom police say assaulted one of their own, was before the court this morning to answer to three criminal offenses. Forty-three-year-old Carol Wade, of Dolphin Drive in the Faber’s Road area in Belize City, appeared before Magistrate Dale Cayetano where she was slapped with one count of aggravated assault upon […]
A pair of Belize City fishermen, caught in the act of harvesting conch from Southern Long Caye on Wednesday, by a team of fisheries officers, was before the court today after being charged jointly with the offense of taking conch during closed season. They are forty-four-year-old Ernesto Vasquez and forty-one-year-old Lloyd Reyes of a Conch Shell […]
